[jaclaz]

Personally I only use QTweb with javascript disabled on Hacker News (and try to access the linked pages with it).

The good thing is that for many sites I don't get stupid "accept cookies" popups and/or paywalls and - as you say - navigation is much faster because so much less data is retrieved.

On many sites - even if the actual text is visualized correctly - dynamically loaded images are obviously missing, but often that is not even a bad thing.

Of course an increasingly number of sites simply don't show anything (blank page) or just the header and footer.

All in all it is not a bad method to sort of preview sites, in many cases you can see all that is relevant, and in many other cases from the little you can view you can decide if it is worth the hassle to access them with another browser with javascript enabled or skip them altohether.