[ishansharma]

People who understand what that setting did can still disable by going to about:config!

This is not a conspiracy, just making browser hard to break for people who check boxes and forget about these. For those, browser is broken!

Those who know what disabling JavaScript actually does still have a way to disable! Where does all the privacy talk come in between?

[Natsu]

NoScript is a much better option all around. I know I've been using it since forever.

When I got my last company laptop without all these things set, I was surprised how painful it was to try and download anything without a proper adblocker and noscript. I don't know how people do it.