Post #2414744

2026-05-11 10:11 UTC

I mean, why do they need to report screen resolution to JS? If you don’t use JS for things you shouldn’t, you don’t need that data point. Or at least make it rough data only. Or ratio data. “User has 4:3 ratio” done.

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@FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-11 14:15

I think there are a few valid reasons. I made a page for my friends for some videos of their adopted puppy they wanted to share. Absolutely ZERO trackers, ZERO fingerprinters. Just oldschool pre-enshittification web page. But CSS wasn't enough to dynamically switch the vdieo res when windows were resized, without losing current playback spot. It needed a little JS. Not much! Tiny and you could just look to see it did nothign bad. Prob is, abuses by Big Evil Tech now overwhelm non-shitty uses. And we're left with a completely enshittified web. Full of fingerprinters and trackers and web bugs. Inescapable surveilence b/c they abuse every possible signal to track ppl. This is why we cannot have nice things.

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