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>Use a browser that isolates the JS engine in its own process

Definitely. All for that.

>and leave spectre mitigations enabled

I do that anyway. The performance cost is unnoticeable to my normal workloads.

>rather than try to play kid-plugging-holes-in-dike-with-finger by auditing all the world’s constantly-changing JS for spectre/meltdown gadgets?

I'll continue doing this too, largely because I want to see what's going on behind the scenes on all the websites I visit. Useful for me to see it all, especially as it changes over time as you observe.

That said, Easylist and Privacylist are also great if you'd rather crowd-source the finger-in-dike-hole-plugging.



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