Shifting the Trap

What happened

Back in 2009, Richard Stallman warned us about The JavaScript Trap . The pitch was simple, and it's aged horrifyingly well. Every time you visit a modern website, your browser silently downloads and executes a pile of non-free JavaScript on your computer. You didn't choose this software. It runs anyway, on your hardware, in your name, and the moment your tab closes, it pretends nothing happened. It's the perfect non…

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