Avoid excite.com

[cwg01]

Just happened to have a need to visit excite.com just now, and was annoyed by getting a screen stating that I needed to have cookies and javascript enabled to visit their site. Well, cookies I don't mind, but I am offended by the 'need' to have javascript in order to view a site, especially when the scripting contains coding which would put my security at risk. And they got the nerve to state that it's for security reasons!

Just my two cents.

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turbopoweredbylynx http://lynx.browser.org/

[sourdaisy]

A lot of the portal websites require javascript because that's what they use to display all the news headlines and such. Each individual section on the page (news, weather, horoscope, etc) are put there via javascript which displays the RDF feeds.

[cwg01]

Shouldn't be necessary, the real reason they use javascript is to track you usage of the site and push ads to your computer, I don't make bald statements, I READ the code. Lynx DOES use cookies according to W3 standards, Lynx DOES NOT operate on Javascript, nor does it care one wit about refresh commands, it stays put once it reaches a page. The page excite wants to send you to is: http://www1.excite.com/security/0,17167,,00.html
This is in excite's home page, otherwise there isn't a lick of real html there, aside from two links, one back to the home page, the other to the above mentioned link.

All I can say is that I shall never haunt excite unexciting webspace anymore, there is nothing there.
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REFRESH(1 sec): http://www1.excite.com/security/0,17167,,00.html

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[f117nighthawk]

LOL, I didn't know anyone was still using Lynx. :-D JavaScript's no big deal. It usually won't do anything. I'm more paranoid about the ActiveX scripts.

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The Velociraptor

[cwg01]

[qoute]JavaScript's no big deal. It usually won't do anything[/quote]

Not sure exactly how it's coded, but using javascript it's possible to open a hidden browser window which will then track you across the internet. The only reason I know it can be down is because I run a development machine, which means I got all sorts of strange softwares I'm able to use to diagnose flaky apps. And ain't nothing flaky'er than seeing a count of nine windows for your browser, but only have five visible. So you shut them all down and there's STILL browsing going on.

P.S. 20% of the world still browse's with Lynx. When you want secure, you go with the best.
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[This message has been edited by cwg01 (edited 03-21-2002).]