Comment by flyinghamster

I'd love to be able to drop NoScript and uBlock Origin, but the web has become such a shitshow that they're vital security tools.

But it's ridiculous that we have to go to such insane lengths, for privacy or even for access. Noscript, in particular, can be very annoying, but it saves me from a lot of worse annoyances.

This also crosses over to the crawling horror of IoT, where every device maker wants your sweet, sweet data. Oh, sure, we can throw our IoT devices on a carefully-firewalled VLAN - provided we have networking gear with that capability and the knowledge to use it, neither of which is likely for the average consumer.

I never imagined I'd live in a real-life cyberpunk dystopia when I first read "Johnny Mnemonic" in Omni so many years ago, but here we are.