I only started to disable JS in 2021, lol. Running arbitrary scripts from random sites on the Internet is not a good idea as there are many privacy and security risks. Browsing with JS disabled by default actually works pretty well, most of the sites are more or less readable. Of course if I was using Erlang and interested in this forum, I'd enable JS on it because it's probably fine (and open source?), but it's still disappointing that a programming forum is not at all readable without JS.
Yeah that's a great idea, in this day and age where everyone is concerned about security, disabling JS and making sites work without JS seems like a great approach.
Hopefully the giants that are always espousing security will see the light.
I've had JS disabled for arbitrary sites since 2019 (with some necessary exceptions), the only thing I feel I've lost out on is being able to view Twitter (as of last year I think?) and Imgur links. In general my experience has been that browsing the internet is faster and more secure without it.