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I run noscript. If I encounter a site that's broken or useless for seemingly no reason (e.g. not an interactive thing like Google Maps), I often don't even whitelist; I just leave. Relatedly, I've stopped clicking on Photobucket or Blogspot links.

I kinda resent being expected to run your pile of arbitrary code just to render static text and images on my screen—something that worked just fine without JS twenty years ago.

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While I admire your principled stand - you are in a dwindling minority so there isn't much reason to factor in people such as yourself when making technical decisions.

The SEO issue is a stronger argument but Googlebot now seems to be executing javascript in some cases so even that might cease to be an issue.

It's not just people like myself; it's people writing one-off scrapers, people writing new search engines or browsers (Google is not the entire universe), everyone when you forget a brace and break all of your JS, etc. The Web is not and has never been merely human beings sitting at a keyboard and using one of three known GUI browsers.

that's your choice, but don't pretend devs will change all their stack/development approach to take into account your refusal of using a technology that has been around for 15 years.

You say that like I'm the one missing out when I don't use your new social cat 2.0 viewer. Do you not want me as a user? How many of me are there?

Some, but not enough to refactor an entire site/app

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