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If it's something like a resource locator or questionnaire, then doing the processing locally in JS is in fact better for privacy than sending personal data over the network. It's nice when websites work without JS but you are a deeply unserious engineer if you think that there are no tradeoffs involved.

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I could see the idea of building a quiz or something with CSS and named anchors (links within the document). No JavaScript, everything all on one .html, and it would work on elinks!

But yeah, that’s certainly a bit of a novelty.

Isn't it possible to set cookies with CSS anyways? https://dev.to/astrit/how-to-set-a-cookie-with-css-3o16 Seems like there would potentially be a way to get cross-site tracking using only CSS, though I don't imagine many people looked into it (I haven't), largely because its a good assumption that your clients have JS enabled so if you want to track, just use JS -- especially because then you get full browser fingerprinting.

But I think "this site doesn't use JS so it must be safe" is...a really bad assumption.

Asceticism isn’t supposed to necessarily make sense to those outside the bubble.

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