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For twitter you can disable JS and it will fallback to a ""degraded"" (a.k.a. Much faster & usable) experience.

It seems to fall back to the old mobile website for me? This is after clicking the fallback prompt.

Yes, but you have to click past an annoying prompt[1] every time. Does that not happen for you?

[1]: https://i.postimg.cc/jjBSVmCX/Screenshot-at-2019-09-01-15-23...

Once the cookie's set, I tend to go straight through.

That annoyance is considerably less than all the others a full-JS Twitter imposes. Including the motherlovin' account-creation nag that shows up all the motherlovin' time.

One click through at entry rather than random annoyance in the midst of reading? A net win. And an incredibly sad commentary on the state of the Web.

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