[danShumway]

I'm not going to jump on the JS hate-train. I develop for the web, I use JS every day. I like JS, I think it's reasonable for websites to use JS. I think most of the people who hate JS are either misinformed or just angry that the web has made programming accessible to a new generation of non-programmers. Fight me.

But all that said, seriously, a lot of current websites don't require JS to function, and if you use an extension like uMatrix, it's trivial to re-enable it on the sites that do.

I have Javascript disabled by default on my personal computer at home. It's not, like, trivial to use -- you will find a lot of broken websites. I wouldn't turn off JS for my parents. But if you're technically inclined, turning JS off is really, honestly not a problem. You just enable it whenever a page doesn't load.

Most news sites I visit work without JS, it will speed up a number of sites dramatically, and (when combined with a few other settings) it can be a huge privacy increase too. It's worth considering, particularly for portable devices like laptops.

[firethief]

Yeah, I use uBlock along with a pi-hole-style dnsmasq blacklist. When I have to use crude unfiltered internet somewhere I'm rudely shocked by how slow it is to render--and horrible, once it does.