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Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
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this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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The NoScript extension in Firefox makes the web so much nicer. It turns out sites that don't require JavaScript tend to made by vastly better humans than sites that do. More so for sites that require cross-site scripting and cookies to just show text.
Can't search on google.com without allowing JavaScript, but it turns out Lite.DuckDuckGo does, and for me at least gives vastly better search results.
Wikipedia can be read and edited without allowing JavaScript, and I personally don't like the crap that the scripts provide. It's also usable without cookies, tho the idiotic UI options column on the right is a hassle without cookies.
That just means you prefer Bing search results. DDG simply proxies Bing Search and removes the tracking elements. So you’d get the same search results with Bing… Though Bing may sort those results differently, since they’d use tracking to push certain sponsored results to the top if they think you’d be more interested in them.