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It's quite ironic that just to look at this document, consisting of plain text with a few low-resolution images, you need to activate javascript in the browser.

araes 2y ago
Good point that was not initially noticed. Another in that same tangent, ever notice that a company that makes $350,000,000,000 a year in revenue and has 183k employees, somehow cannot manage to have a main search page that works without Javascript? Tried experimenting with turning Javascript off last month just to see how bad the situation was in the modern web. Actually ended up rather surprised and happy. A lot of the modern web actually have reasonable fallbacks and work correctly. The stuff that was kind of expected to be broken was broken. Facebook doesn't work. Reddit doesn't work. Youtube doesn't work. Most modern news websites do work though, surprisingly. ABC, NBC, CBS, Reuters, Bloomberg, ect... They won't load the images and the fancy videos in some cases. A few, "pending content" issues. In a lot of cases the result is almost preferable though. Snappy, quick web page loads. Don't actually care about the lack of image and video loads. Quite a few of the other sites I read load. Stackoverflow, Slashdot, Hacker News, Wikipedia. Quite a few searches will even load. Bing will search without Javascript. DuckDuckGo will search without Javascript. Ecosia will search for images, news, and videos, just not webpage content. For some reason Google won't search. "Turn on JavaScript to keep searching" Main product. What their entire reputation is built off of. Nothing. Note: This response was written (and edited) with Javascript turned off.
- pas 2y ago
  old.reddit.com works, no? it's ironic that Google is so privileged it can completely ignore the people who wish to have a bit more security/privacy.
  - araes 2y ago
    Yup, had not thought to try old.reddit.com. So chalk another up to actually functional without Javascript (long as you know where to look). They're too busy trying lock me out of my email all the time to even care.

araes 2y ago

Good point that was not initially noticed. Another in that same tangent, ever notice that a company that makes $350,000,000,000 a year in revenue and has 183k employees, somehow cannot manage to have a main search page that works without Javascript? Tried experimenting with turning Javascript off last month just to see how bad the situation was in the modern web. Actually ended up rather surprised and happy. A lot of the modern web actually have reasonable fallbacks and work correctly. The stuff that was kind of expected to be broken was broken. Facebook doesn't work. Reddit doesn't work. Youtube doesn't work. Most modern news websites do work though, surprisingly. ABC, NBC, CBS, Reuters, Bloomberg, ect... They won't load the images and the fancy videos in some cases. A few, "pending content" issues. In a lot of cases the result is almost preferable though. Snappy, quick web page loads. Don't actually care about the lack of image and video loads. Quite a few of the other sites I read load. Stackoverflow, Slashdot, Hacker News, Wikipedia. Quite a few searches will even load. Bing will search without Javascript. DuckDuckGo will search without Javascript. Ecosia will search for images, news, and videos, just not webpage content. For some reason Google won't search. "Turn on JavaScript to keep searching" Main product. What their entire reputation is built off of. Nothing. Note: This response was written (and edited) with Javascript turned off.

pas 2y ago
old.reddit.com works, no? it's ironic that Google is so privileged it can completely ignore the people who wish to have a bit more security/privacy.
- araes 2y ago
  Yup, had not thought to try old.reddit.com. So chalk another up to actually functional without Javascript (long as you know where to look). They're too busy trying lock me out of my email all the time to even care.