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> Perhaps there should be a required banner for every JS-using site, telling the user that it sends you executable code, and you need to press a button to confirm that you indeed want to let the browser do that. (joke)

IIRC, this was exactly what we had in the old days of IE4/IE5. Also for cookies, even earlier than that.

(We sort of got cookie popups back, thanks to it being easier to throw a popup than to actually obey the spirit of GDPR and be a good web citizen. I wonder if at some point same will happen with JS?)



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