Can WebASM provide JavaScript style interactivity without the same vulnerabilities?

JavaScript is useful for interactivity. However, it is often disabled by security conscious browsers, such as the Tor Browser Bundle, and blocked with plugins such as NoScript.
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Tor Network Hit By a Series of Ongoing DDoS Attacks

By Habiba Rashid
Has your Tor browser been slow for the past few months? Well, you are not alone; the ongoing DDoS attacks on the Tor network are keeping it slow worldwide.
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How the Silk Road Affair Changed Law Enforcement

The Silk Road was the first modern dark web marketplace, an online place for anonymously buying and selling illegal products and services using Bitcoin.  Ross Ulbricht created The Silk Road in 2011 and operated it until 2013 when the FBI shut it down. Its creator was eventually arrested and sentenced to life in prison. But […]

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How does a website know if i’ve visited it before? (and how to bypass that) [closed]

For example: https://pdfcandy.com/pdf-ocr.html has a limit on how many times I can use a feature per hour, but if I use an incognito tab I can easily bypass that.
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The FBI Identified a Tor User

No details, though:

According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May 14, 2019. In virtue of being a dark web site—­that is, one hosted on the Tor anonymity network—­it should have been difficult for the site owner’s or a third party to determine the real IP address of any of the site’s visitors.

Yet, that’s exactly what the FBI did. It found Al-Azhari allegedly visited the site from an IP address associated with Al-Azhari’s grandmother’s house in Riverside, California. The FBI also found what specific pages Al-Azhari visited, including a section on donating Bitcoin; another focused on military operations conducted by ISIS fighters in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria; and another page that provided links to material from ISIS’s media arm. Without the FBI deploying some form of surveillance technique, or Al-Azhari using another method to visit the site which exposed their IP address, this should not have been possible…

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