They're using Javascript, first released in 1994.

mirimir · on Dec 19, 2019

Good one, there.

But seriously, I have no problem with over 90% of the sites I visit using this Firefox instance. But then there's wired.com and imgur.com, for example, which display just blank pages.

I have no clue what it is. I've made too many changes.

But I'm reasonably confident that it's something evil that they're doing, rather than something silly that I've done.

reificator · on Dec 20, 2019

When I visit Google Play Music in Firefox the interface loads about 80% but all clicks result in an error message.

I'm fairly sure it comes down to the automatic tracking protection Firefox touts, but I can't seem to find how to turn it off for one specific site. Or better yet the specific requests that cause breakage on the specific site.

soulofmischief · on Dec 19, 2019

SPAs and client-side rendering, exacerbated by not using placeholders.

pmoriarty · on Dec 19, 2019

I can read it fine on emacs, using emacs-w3m, which does not understand javascript. So javascript is not required to read this article.

benibela · on Dec 19, 2019

And here it works fine in Firefox + Noscript

However, the images are missing

The kleinbottle website is better

mirimir · on Dec 19, 2019

Huh. And yes, this works:

   $ w3m -dump https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-mad-scientist-who-wrote-the-book-on-how-to-hunt-hackers/ | less

So it's not Javascript.

I wonder what I've done to Firefox. Maybe I'll take some time to figure that out.