I'd much rather this than needing to agree to hundreds of commercial entities eating my data and spreading it to [deity] knows how many more, or clicking hundre

I'd much rather this than needing to agree to hundreds of commercial entities eating my data and spreading it to [deity] knows how many more, or clicking hundreds of "legitimate interest in our position as a stalker" checkboxes to opt out, which is required for taking stuff using many other publishing options. Requiring JS to read a simple article is undoubtedly wasteful, of course, but there are far worse insults you can make to you readership.