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Then it’s a badly designed website, GET requests (and arguably the JS delivered with a GET-requested HTMl page) should be side-effect free. Side effects should come from explicit user interaction.


> and arguably the JS delivered with a GET-requested HTMl page

That's pretty hard to achieve.


Why? What side effects does loading and executing the JS of a normal website have? Except for analytics, I don’t see any.




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