Small Web sites will require JavaScript to sign in.
Why?
To protect your privacy.
We use public-key authentication (which I’m implementing as we speak) so your secret is never stored on the server and you only enter it in places you own and control.
(I can already see some folks up in arms about this because JavaScript Bad™ so I just checked in the initial copy for the page that gets displayed if JavaScript is off.)
Honestly, if it weren't you I had stopped reading at "[turn on Javascript] to protect your privacy". Call me biased, but I'd never believe/follow that advice unless I'd totally trust™ that server (admin+machine+software). This too much reminds me of the "corporate evil" of "you'll see a certificate warning because we use a self-signed one, you can simply ignore that" – which leads to, guess what? People getting used to ignore and doing so elsewhere. Dangerous 😉
@IzzyOnDroid Sadly, there’s been a tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to client-side JavaScript (especially in the FOSS world – “The JavaScript Trap”, etc.) Ironically enough given how adtech uses it, the only way we can have a privacy-respecting web (where you and you alone hold the secrets that authenticate your identity) is through client-side JavaScript. It’s basically the basis of the Small Web.
Yupp, once more: Ad-tech destroyed the web. If it weren't for them, the world would be a much better place!
* Web traffic down to 10% (no bloated elements, no bloated ads, no tracking scripts) * Mail traffic down (same reasons plus no spam at all) * required computing resources down to below 50% (no tracker-blocker needed, no spam filters) * power consumption down (especially those ad panels!) * …
When we say "hyper-capitalism destroyed the world", this is true on so many levels…
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •* Web traffic down to 10% (no bloated elements, no bloated ads, no tracking scripts)
* Mail traffic down (same reasons plus no spam at all)
* required computing resources down to below 50% (no tracker-blocker needed, no spam filters)
* power consumption down (especially those ad panels!)
* …
When we say "hyper-capitalism destroyed the world", this is true on so many levels…