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		wackget on May 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I want to talk about WebGPU Open this site with uMatrix - blocking cookies, third-party content, and XHR requests - and the page simply goes blank after about 10 seconds. Why it needs cookies/XHR to display a page of plain text, I don't know, but I left the site.

kmstout on May 3, 2023 [–]

After disabling Javascript [0], everything is fine.

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[0] The aptly named "Javascript Toggle On and Off" plugin for Firefox sets up a keybinding for toggling. It's very convenient and great for scaling many a paywall.

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