Watching videos with Javascript turned off, there are no ads. Google tries to force users to turn on JavaScript by needlessly making the YouTube website "requi

Watching videos with Javascript turned off, there are no ads. Google tries to force users to turn on JavaScript by needlessly making the YouTube website "require" JS to be turned on to play videos. However it is easy to play the videos without using JavaScript using just basic HTML. Example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23076239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23076239