Post #967578

2026-04-04 07:02 UTC

Reading a comment on how Chrome allows more privacy-invasive stuff, as if I needed more reasons to NOT use Chrome, just reminds me: I&#39;m not a web developer, so, I have no clue really. But I generally feel browsers tell websites too much without asking me. For example, I use uBlock to block two browser events, &quot;pagehide&quot; and &quot;visibilitychange&quot; that tell a website if you start or stop looking at it, for example to allow the website to pause videos or something. I&#39;ve never seen this used for non-nefarious reasons! *I* will tell the website when to pause something! The site will only use it to make sure I watch ads. &quot;Tell websites if you&#39;re looking at them&quot; should be an opt-in browser option! Same with my cursor leaving website bounds. The website should have no right to know! #privacy

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@Hakuso@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 07:47

@BryanGreyson In my book if a site fails to load.with NoScript active it doesn't need to. Very few things will I turn Javascript on for, and zi really wish they'd go back.to serverside PHP and the like for legitimate.uses. Also doesn't help having.*any* association with Ellison.

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@lukyan@lukyan.eu 2026-04-04 07:53

@BryanGreyson Yes, browsers shouldn't have implemented many of their features. I see the usual non-browser game features of "stop music when minimized" and "stop scrolling when the cursor leaves the window" could be implemented now, but I never experience browser games stopping music when inactive and I want background music from certain tabs. They could've kept the interactivity of the 1990s and just improve accessibility without scripting.

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