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1. Jamie J (slightlyflightyone@mastodon.sergal.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 10:51:24 JST Jamie J

   if we never had JavaScript, we never would have had Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter, so the general state of the world and that whole rise of overt fascism thing is honestly kind of JavaScript’s fault when you really think about it

   • Jamie J (slightlyflightyone@mastodon.sergal.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 10:51:15 JST Jamie J

     in reply to

     • Adam Katz :donor:

     @adamhotep running arbitrary code in the web browser on whatever site you access immediately and without prompt should never have been allowed, let alone normalized

     it only was in the first place to feed the ego of the guy who claims credit for inventing it and it continues to be because it enables mass surveillance on which corporations profit

   • Adam Katz :donor: (adamhotep@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 10:51:21 JST Adam Katz :donor:

     in reply to

     @slightlyflightyone I use NoScript. I don't recall of Flash had that option built in, I always used extensions to disable it by default.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Jamie J (slightlyflightyone@mastodon.sergal.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 10:51:22 JST Jamie J

     in reply to

     • Adam Katz :donor:

     @adamhotep it would be preferable that arbitrary code execution in the web browser without explicit user notification or permission was never implemented

     which if I am not mistaken, Flash actually did not run in the browser without user notification or permission and if so, this would have been preferable

   • Adam Katz :donor: (adamhotep@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 10:51:23 JST Adam Katz :donor:

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     @slightlyflightyone ... or all of this would've been written in Flash. I therefore praise JS 😉

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.