[bmacho]

It uses a lot of data, it is a security risk, it is a privacy risk, and it forces you to throw away your old devices.

[victorbjorklund]

how much extra data does JS on google use vs without JS? We must be talking about kb that are probably also cached.

[KronisLV]

On the average site JS will add anywhere from hundreds of KB to over a MB of data to download: https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-javascript#bytesJs

Especially when it’s foundational to how the site runs, e.g. the typical way how Vue, React or Angular are used.

[bmacho]

I personally use a free (and small) mobile data plan, so that several MB/search would make me pay infinite times more. I switched to DDG.