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Title: Shocked by browsing with Javascript disabled!
Post by: Jaguu on April 12, 2012, 11:35:17 am

Analyzing the results of some websites I am responsible for with Google Analytics, I was shocked to realise that 20% of the visitors browse the Internet with Javascript disabled. I suspected this value between 1 or 2%. Are there so many security freaks out there?

What numbers do other people have in compare and what might be other reasons for such high numbers? Thank you!

Title: Re: Shocked by browsing with Javascript disabled!
Post by: KingSparta on April 12, 2012, 09:41:19 pm

I tend to disable Javascript (along with other IE plug-ins) unless I really want to use it.

Title: Re: Shocked by browsing with Javascript disabled!
Post by: bob on April 13, 2012, 12:38:06 pm

I shut it down mostly unless it's a site I know and then only turn on the minimum necessary stuff.
So in Firefox I'm using

Adblock plus
NoScript
BetterPrivacy (cleans out persistent flash cookies)
Ghostery (blocks cross site trackers, etc)

In other browsers I use what equivalents I can find.

Title: Re: Shocked by browsing with Javascript disabled!
Post by: InflatableMouse on May 10, 2012, 03:29:45 pm

Same as Bob here, and in addition I use Request Policy, Cookie Monster (reject al cookies by default) and an anonymizer proxy and Disconnect. Some overlap on a lot of them but oh well.

Security freak, yes ... as in ... securing my privacy ::)

Title: Re: Shocked by browsing with Javascript disabled!
Post by: KingSparta on May 10, 2012, 09:35:15 pm

what would you do with an Inflatable Mouse?

Title: Re: Shocked by browsing with Javascript disabled!
Post by: InflatableMouse on May 11, 2012, 12:05:53 am

Tolerate  ;D.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTA30qUSnqU

Title: Re: Shocked by browsing with Javascript disabled!
Post by: KingSparta on May 21, 2012, 12:56:23 pm

That's Kind Of Neat, Never Knew They Had Such A Device.

Title: Re: Shocked by browsing with Javascript disabled!
Post by: InflatableMouse on May 21, 2012, 01:03:19 pm

Hehe ... I had that nick waaay before that mouse got invented though. I'm not even sure how I came by it. I think it had to do with elephants somehow ...  ::)