Reasons I might be browsing without javascript: 1. I am a paranoid geek. (But in this age in which JS is powerful enough to implement a SIP stack or a virtual

Reasons I might be browsing without javascript: 1. I am a paranoid geek. (But in this age in which JS is powerful enough to implement a SIP stack or a virtual 486 processor, is it truly paranoid to want control over potentially hostile code running in ones browser?) 2. I'm blind or severely visually disabled and need a screen text-to-speech reader. Funnily enough, JS-mediated sites truly suck for the visually disabled. Do you want your site to be in breach of disabilities discrimination laws? 3. I don't like ads. 4. I run a low power machine (a multi-years-old laptop) and find multimegabyte javascript apps bog it down and cause it to blow hot air across my knees. 5. "It's new, therefore it's good" is specious (and frequently false) logic. TL:DR; HN is over-populated by people who confuse complexity with quality.