One thing to improve the situation: use an extension or hotkey setup to switch JavaScript on and off very quickly. I use Toggle JavaScript in Chrome. It helps.

One thing to improve the situation: use an extension or hotkey setup to switch JavaScript on and off very quickly. I use Toggle JavaScript in Chrome. It helps. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toggle-javascript/cidlcjdalomndpeagkjpnefhljffbnlo/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toggle-javascript/... The biggest obstacle is, as others have said, some websites simply do not work. The biggest benefit to turning it off, though, is that sites finish loading much much quicker. Take Stereogum. Without JavaScript, you save yourself from a sluggish mess of a website that, really, is just text and images.