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0 pointsajdude5y ago0 comments

I’m kind of like that but in the other direction. I disable JavaScript on everything by default, and if I run into a website or a blog that won’t work without JavaScript, most of the time I just give up and leave the site instead of enabling JavaScript for that specific domain.

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C-x_C-f5y ago· 1 in thread

This. I've also noticed that websites that don't run without JS are either interactive apps (for which it is understandable) or sites that want to load JS from so many places that I simply can't be bothered figuring out which ones to whitelist.

ajdudeOP5y ago

Some websites like Quora would go so far as to just lock me completely out with a blank page that simply says "Please enable Javascript and refresh the page to continue"

I have trouble believing that they absolutely /need/ JavaScript to load answers to random questions on what seems like a relatively static page.

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