[Pxtl]

I tend to think rants like this are just being luddites, but all this JavaScript and external resources rest are ruining the experience of the web. Holy crap is everything slow now. On desktop we've all gotten into the habit of tabbing the new stuff and waiting for load while doing something else, but on mobile where that workflow isn't as easy and you have to watch a page load? I'd say HN is one of the very few sites I can stand anymore.

[userbinator]

I encourage you to try the "NoScript challenge" - disable JS, enabling it only for sites you often use and which need it, and browse the Web for a week. If you tend to indulge in rich multimedia you're probably going to give up soon, but if, like me, you're just after text and image content the majority of the time, you might actually prefer it. Pages load nearly instantly (or not at all), there no more intrusive popups/popunders/slideovers/etc. and other annoyances like disabling right-click, text selection, or stuffing text into your clipboard.

The "almost all sites have JavaScript and will break if you disable it" statement is common, and while I agree that the vast majority of sites do have JS on them, whether or not the stuff that will "break" on them if you disable JS is actually of any use to you is questionable.