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I browse with JS disabled and your site is just a blank page for me.


Privacy.com. Don't let them track you. I open it to find a totally blank page asking me to turn on malicious, surveillance-loving, code execution to view ("we promise") good content.

(sighs)

And, to "modern web requires Javascript" critics, modern life expects credit, web surveillance, Facebook, etc. That doesn't mean you have to support or force it on others. Let's look at it really quick to see if a HTML4 w/ CSS site could've handle it. Yep, we did more interesting stuff back in the "DHTML" days (eg dynamicdrive.com). So, it's a privacy site pushing risky, higher-overhead crap on us just for fun. Hypocrites.

Alright, now let's look at the security. I should eliminate stealing a specific card or using malware on the machine to forge transactions. These are main attack vectors. Might mitigate the first. Looks like it will be vulnerable to the second. Admittedly, most methods are vulnerable to the second and those that aren't stay niche due to "inconvenience." So, still could be value in mass market where people get compromised anyway but want to knock out a common attack. The third risk is an unknown with some of the claims looking good on paper but to abstract to evaluate.

Note: The split-keys between employees part on the security page is funny. It's a banking control for sure. I'll just let your imaginations work out how little protection it brings from hackers, management, or the government. ;)


Should probably turn JS on, then, if you want to browse the modern web.


Fool! This "modern web" you speak of is nothing without me browsing it. It is not I who am missing out! Nay! It is the "modern web" that is diminished by my non-browsing of it!

They are punishing themselves! Why!?

No matter. I shall browse on, without Javascript, safe in the certitude that I am only missing the content of people too foolish, ignorant, or uncaring to use HTML and CSS properly.


lol!




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