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Originally Posted by James

Turning off JavaScript will break things on a lot of websites.

Some yes which is why it should be fairly toggable. Most websites though are designed to be fairly usable even without javascript support. There are still plenty of people in country's/areas with metered/slow connections that use browsers such as Opera Mini on mobile with limited support who may require access and they may have no/limited JS support. The problem is not JS, but that most JS scripts are not written with accessibility in mind and this can give some people a hard time, especially when using things like screen readers... ads usually being the culprit, but I have run into design issues on bigger websites that were resolved simply by turning off JS. (like article websites, not CMSes or social networks like Facebook).

I turned off adblocker once for basic surfing to help support fledging outfits but noticed my browser would periodically crash because of poorly written scripts... so now I just white list per site... but on mobile I stop most bad JS scripts by way of using "reading mode" in my browser which stops the scripts and loads the text by itself (which is all that I would need anyway)... there are so many buggy scripts, even on some of the bigger sites.... but I digress.

I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turn...-was-glorious/