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There are days when I wish all JavaScript was illegal... Step 1: Go to media website with Firefox on my mobile phone. Step 2: Mobile phone hangs, gets hot, jerky scrolling, delayed scrolling, unprompted scrolling (as ads load and get inserted and reflow everything), combinations of all of these. Step 3: Give up and use Firefox Focus for the same g.d. site, and it just works.

Some sites won't load at all though if you block JavaScript. They've ruined the internet.

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Sites that wont load on the internet without JavaScript dont deserve to be on the internet.

Edit: left out the important without javascript

This is an outdated and flawed mentality in my opinion. JavaScript has great potential to enchance UX if used selectively with care. There are plenty of ways to ruin a website, JavaScript is but one.

You could also use a defibrillator to beat someone to death but surely discouraging violence and not condemning the defibrillator is the answer (this is a crappy analogy I know).

And the appropriate use of JavaScript is being encouraged more and more. Browers have increasingly usful features against "user hostile" sites. And then there's the old "vote with your wallet" except this time it's vote with your visits - if a site uses JavaScript or anything else you find unpleasant then.. don't go to that site.

Leave JavaScript alone already!

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