[beachy]

> what is HNs obsession with disabling JavaScript?

1) Disgust at sites that use JS for gratuitous purposes, absurd scrolling, stupid visual effects.

2) A kind of chest thumping "I was here long before Javascript was a thing, laddy".

3) Security fears, desire to reduce attack surface

4) Revulsion of JS as a language

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5) When you visit a site that didn't actually need that JS it wanted to load, it's done instantly.

[nine_k]

0) Not seeing ads, nag screens, gratuitous requests for sending notifications, etc, and often even avoiding paywalls.

Of course there are less drastic ways to achieve all this. With JavaScript off, many things on the internet look broken, so it's pleasant that certain things become manifestly un-broken.