You are smacking your own face by disabling it. Instead of trying to get the entire world to conform to the requirements of your special browser, why won't you have your browser conform to the needs of the world.
I don't want pop ups, ads, cookies, gdpr nagging, tracking pixels, autoplaying videos or malicious exploits. If those are the requirements of the world to read a basic article, then fuck the world!
none of them require JS, but that's how they're most commonly deployed. Getting rid of most of the worst things a website will typically force on you is a massive benefit when all it takes is a couple of clicks to whitelist the good websites.