The simple and right thing to do would be to turn off JavaScript on homenodes. It's a big middle finger to new visitors when they stumble onto homenodes such as AgentM's.
The web is a huge place with plenty of room to rant about the evils of JavaScript. Perlmonks isn't the forum for such a discussion.
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Like a gullible neophyte, my reaction to all this was to visit the home-node in question. Shortly thereafter, of course, I had to switch to a shell window and kill my running Mozilla process.
That pissed me off. Want to tell that you think I'm stupid for having JS enabled? Do it in big, blinky red lettering or something. Or insert IMG tags to some offensive site. Don't make me shut down my browser (losing the chance to bookmark a page in a second window in the process)... it's childish and smacks of the sort of person who thinks spelling words 71K3 t41s is kEW7.
Thanks to the keepers for fixing the setting. Fortunately, I can further keep my browser safe simply by not bothering to visit that node again. Ever.
--rjray
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I must admit I felt the same thing when I went there first, and still do to a certain extent.
However, in AgentM's defense, I will say that I have never forgotten the lesson. I am very wary of JS now (much to the chagrin of my fiancee, who seems to think JS should be enabled all the time regardless).
I admit it's not an ideal situation, but experience sure does learn a person fast.
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I sort of have to agree with chaoticset. The best way to keep your browser safe is to not surf with Javascript enabled. Period. Ever.
Sorry....but, um, you were warned. You did read the source to the home node in question, right? It might be juvenile, but what would you expect from someone who regularly touts something sleazy?
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I have to chime in, here. Disabling javascript on your own computer is fine and dandy. However, coming from someone who has recently sampled cyber cafes all over the world, I can personally attest that in many cases JavaScript is enabled on the cafe machines and there is no way to disable it. Not to mention that in many cases people are simply borrowing someone else's machine -- to barge in and mess with their personal configuration is not very sociable.
These scenarios happen every day. When browser configuration is out of your control, these home nodes with borderline-malicious JS are downright rude and malicious because of the assumptions they make about your environment.
In the case of net cafes, even when they do allow you to configure your browser to your liking (you know, such as disabling password auto-complete on forms in IE (arrgh!), it is unlikely that people will completely reconfigure a browser every single time they walk into a net cafe.
For those monks who are Called to teach others the dangers of JavaScript, please remember that not everyone's circumstances are identical to your own -- to assume otherwise is shortsighted at best.
Matt
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