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Re: why won't ff look at this url?

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On Saturday 24 August 2019 20:50:25 John Hasler wrote:

> Gene writes:
> > And I'd like to be able to at least get an error message giving me a
> > clue what to do when at least 25% of the news sites I visit are
> > similarly blank pages.
>
> In addition to add-ons such as NoScript, take a look at the settings
> in Preferences->Privacy&Security in Firefox.  These sites want to pull
> in scripts from dozens of sites as well as setting trackers and
> storing cookies and site data on your machine.   They usually work ok
> without most of it but there's often some they just can't live
> without.  It's inconceivable to the Web designers that you might want
> to simply read the text.  They're certain that you need an "enhanced
> user experience".

An attitude I'd cheerfully beat them with, if I was 65 years younger.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Re: why won't ff look at this url? bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2019-08-25 01:30 +0200
  Re: why won't ff look at this url? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-25 01:40 +0200
    Re: why won't ff look at this url? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-25 02:50 +0200
      OT: AI (was: Re: why won't ff look at this url?) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-08-25 14:30 +0200
        Re: OT: AI John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-08-25 14:40 +0200
          Re: OT: AI Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-08-25 18:50 +0200
          Re: OT: AI mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-08-26 11:00 +0200
            Re: OT: AI rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-08-26 13:20 +0200
        Re: OT: AI (was: Re: why won't ff look at this url?) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-08-25 14:40 +0200
      Re: why won't ff look at this url? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-25 17:20 +0200
  Re: why won't ff look at this url? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-25 02:30 +0200
    Re: why won't ff look at this url? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-08-25 03:00 +0200
      Re: why won't ff look at this url? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-25 03:10 +0200

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