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who are the groups of people actively turning off JS?
by sharps_xp 5y ago
who are the groups of people actively turning off JS?
- heavyset_go 5y agoI open a lot of tabs and my battery would die within a couple of hours if I left JS on.
- papito 5y agoIt's like turning your car's engine off because that uses fuel.
- Isognoviastoma 5y agoIt's like turning your car's engine off overnight because that uses fuel.
- VectorLock 5y agoIdle-stop is (annoyingly) a thing, now.
- linopolus 5y agoThe engine is HTML. No more is needed to give me the information I want, though CSS and images are certainly nice. JS would be more like the infotainment system: Sometimes nice, sometimes annoying, sometimes dangerous.
- papito 5y agoThat was certainly true in 2005, when JS was used more to impress the audience. The modern internet is mostly useless if you do not have JS running. I would imagine you have to turn it on and off all the time because you can't do simple things, like log in.
- heavyset_go 5y agoEh, it took a few cumulative minutes to build a nice whitelist and I don't ever notice it. I do notice it, however, when I visit a news site and I'm not inundated by confirmation dialogs, ads and two auto-playing videos at once.
- nicbou 5y agoI honestly don't know. They're overrepresented on Hacker News for sure. However my website is just text on a page and I see no reason for it to break when JS is turned off. Only the calculators and other widget will stop working.
- sjmulder 5y agoI have JavaScript disabled on my phone. Without technical measures, the web is just painful. Sites take long to load, they jump around, obscure the viewport with all kinds of sticky content, show maliciously compliant cookie screens, interrupt reading with delayed newsletter popups - there's just no end to it. On the desktop there are extensions to get an acceptable experience but not on iOS. Disabling JS may be radical but it yields a butter smooth, battery efficient, mostly crap-free experience. For problematic sites there's the back button or a back up browser with JS enabled.
- dmitriid 5y agoAny time your JS code breaks, you've effectively turned off JS for that page. And this happens orders of magnitude more often than people consciously turning of JS