Is InfoWorld After My Privacy? Or Worse?
Tom Sanders writes on Silicon Valley Sleuth:Infoworld seems to be breaking new ground, but not in any good way.
More here.
Looking at the main page at InfoWorld, it's chock (and I mean chock) full of JavaScript:
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This is bad -- and I'll tell you why in one sentence (or maybe two).
By forcing users to allow JavaScript to "experience" the "feature-rich content" hosted on websites like this, it forces the ordinary Internet user to allow themselves to be victimized by nefarious websites containing malicious JavaScript.
Sure, there are great tools -- like NoScript for Firefox -- which allow users to selectively determine which sites to allow JavaScript functionality, but the average Internet user is most likely going to get burned because of this "Tragedy of the Commons".
- ferg
posted by Fergie @ 8/14/2007 08:44:00 PM
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