To see prose text at the client end of a hypertext protocol, you must* enable JavaScript, a more energy intensive and fragile means of processing text than the carrier.
*If your publishing process is built by idiot bros
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…But this is the way the web has been heading for years, and now JavaScript-powered “Prove you are a human” gateways are cementing JavaScript dependency into everything, thus normalising “This is just how things have to be”.
JavaScript front ends are ‘protecting’ publishers from JavaScript-laden thieves and fucker-uppers.
It’s just a relentless justification for absolute bullshit accelerating overshoot towards the point where trillions of lines of shitty verbose code no longer work
@urlyman Floated around here: The internet used to be a library, it has become a store... or something along these lines. This fits the profile.
@koen_hufkens another tragedy of enclosure masquerading as “a tragedy of the commons”
@urlyman Things always go well until a greedy landlord moves in.
…If you turn JavaScript off and your website does not work at all – i.e. it delivers nothing other than a “You must enable JavaScript” message, or key functions like the main menu are inoperable – then it’s been built by fucking idiots and you have been pissing your money away on their wanky indulgences