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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Disabling javascript increases security, and offers a little bit of privacy. Those are both separate from anonymity, but people conflate the three often.
For example, javascript can be made to do arbitrary websoccket or http connections to any ip/hostname your computer has access to — even local networks or localhost.
I use the browser extension Port authority to block it.
Of course, port scanning is used by ebay to scan users computers, and discord.
Disabling javascript prevents websites from tracking exactly what you do on each site, or what local ports you have open. This is definitely an increase in privacy, as it relates to hiding what you’re doing. However, you noted it comes at the cost of anonymity, as you become uniquely identifiable.
Of course if you’re not blocking js entirely but using something like port authority, then that can potentially be detected and used against you just like I mentioned, so yeah it’s a tradeoff you just have to decide on based on your own individual threat model.