[vacri]

Yahoo's audience: general public

This article's audience: software developers

Given that the article is in English as well, and English countries have higher levels of disabled javascript than other countries from that report, and that the target audience is a very specific type of technical focus rather than the general public, I'd hazard that the original point stands.

Not to mention that if some crawlers don't access javascript, you'll serve up nothing to the relevant search index.

[gfodor]

You'll hazard that 1 out of 10 people accessing this webpage have Javascript disabled?

[yareally]

I disable it for sites that abuse javascript. I'm guessing I am not the only one that does. Probably quite a few people would do that outside of us developers if they knew they could (or knew the a site's major problem was derived from it). Not inferring anything about this particular site, just that there's good reasons to turn it off at times.

I normally browse with it on by default though, but I'll blacklist it for sites that cause my browser to slow down or do other things that are detrimental to the user experience.

[kd0amg]

Or use something like NoScript