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JS is a vector for browser exploits and privacy invasion. No other language is commonly used for these things.
by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
JS is a vector for browser exploits and privacy invasion. No other language is commonly used for these things.
- alt227 10d agoNot even things like batch files and visual basic scripts on windows? Everyone seems to forget we had decades of dodgy scripts and activex controls in our browsers for years before javascript became the thing it is today.
- kevin_thibedeau 10d agoThey were never widely disseminated over a network. Office VBA exploits only lasted as a widespread threat until MS locked down macros by default. JS has been around much longer than that.
- Dusseldorf 10d agoI can't recall ever needing to run a batch script to read a paragraph on a website, so doesn't seem like a very apt comparison. Are you claiming there's some group of people who have JavaScript disabled but would be happily running Activex if it were still around? Seems reasonable for some people to dislike and disable JavaScript in 2026, even though another, separate group of people had ActiveX enabled in 2009.
- micromacrofoot 10d agopngs in emails are used for this http headers and CSS is used for this flash drives left on the ground outside are used for this