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"JavaScript must be enabled in order to use the bytejail website."

Good way to keep stubborn technical users from learning about your project, whatever it may be.

The <noscript> crowd is really starting to sound like my Uncle who still keeps his money under his mattress.

In Germany 33 non-conformist were also called backwards and conservative. The Web today is Germany 33 and js is the elephant in the room who makes life a little bit worse.

Is he taking on new investors?

Disabling JS on mobile is a godsend though. I keep JS disabled on my phone[1] most of the time and it's generally just a more pleasant experience. I don't even have a particularly slow phone (HTC One M8, I guess it's a couple years old now but it's held up well) but the speed improvement is very noticeable.

We may be crazy but we have our reasons.

1. The very nifty Lightning browser <https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser> exposes a convenient setting for this; there's very little menu digging involved if I want to enable it.

Yeah I like how they display a special page for NoScript users. I wonder how they knew I was using it.

It's near the top of the page's source:

    <noscript><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=/noscript"/></noscript>

(The <noscript> tag has been around since at least as long as I've had Internet access. It's not new.)

It might be encouraging to know that, while the website does require Javascript, there are no third-party trackers: https://i.imgur.com/4fYPJ5P.png

I don't really sympathize with the NoJS crowd. If nothing else, you could write a plugin that allows JS but intercepts/drops network calls. Then it doesn't really matter what the JS is doing.

Unwanted XHRs' aren't the only reason to block javascript.

NoScript has an option to disable that kind of redirection.

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