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EWW As A Way To Evade Paywalls (opens in new tab)

In my post on Omar Antolín Camarena’s May Emacs Carnival contribution explaining his reasons for using EWW as his default browser, I mentioned that Camarena said that one of the benefits of EWW not supporting JavaScript is that JavaScript is mostly used to make the user’s experience worse by doing things like loading ads, reconfiguring the user’s display parameters, and implementing paywalls.

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