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I surfed without JS on for a long time. I found that it made the web very very pleasant! What totally breaks is when you do a complicated bank transfer or work

I surfed without JS on for a long time. I found that it made the web very very pleasant! What totally breaks is when you do a complicated bank transfer or work on some older site. They often transfer you across multiple domains, so whitelisting doesn't work, as you can't anticipate what site to whitelist (when you check your points, bank.com redirects you to bankrewards.com, things like that). What's really needed is a chrome extension to let you turn JS off and on, and if you turn it on, it can be set to auto-turn off after some time. What would be even better is if Chrome offered this behavior in an easily accessible way.

marssaxman 9y ago
My credit union's web site hilariously misinterprets my browser's portrait-mode aspect ratio and lack of Javascript as evidence that I must be using a phone, and serves me up a "mobile" site which is lighter, simpler, faster, and generally more pleasant to use than the normal one. Yes, there are a couple of extra pages to click through when transferring money from one account to another, but the pages load so quickly that it's still actually faster than the Javascript-based menus in the desktop site. Every time I set up a new browser, NoScript is the second plugin I install, after uBlock Origin. Between the two, the web is far less annoying than it used to be.