You will be astounded how much of the web breaks. I know you think you know, but it's worse than you can imagine. The number of sites that can't even display their images, the amount of third party css that is needed and won't load, dropdowns, search buttons, and endless Big Red Banners telling you that you need to enable javascript.

I am 100% in agreement JS is the problem and should be abandoned. But the web falls apart if you disable it.

source: disabled JS on iOS safari. I leave it disabled but have to open other browser all the time. Even stupid HuffPo "click to read" is JS. So when I click 'news' links from the main news widget they open in Safari and I can't read the article I have to copy and paste into Chrome (which does have JS enabled).

There's no way this is an ok user experience. But JS is not an ok security experience. I'm like F THIS I'M SWITCHING TO LYNX. :-(

Exactly this. Ten years ago, sites would fail gracefully if the client didn't have JS enabled. But today, all the cool web kids want to do "100% client-side rendering" which means the page is completely blank if you disable JS. For a very few web sites, this makes sense. For the vast majority, it does not.

If you're savvy enough to know that you can "disable JS by default" I'm betting you are also savvy enough to not download AdobeFlashPlayer.dmg from newtypeinstalllite.icu.

Use uMatrix, it will give you finer control than a simple “on/off” with a nice GUI.

You don’t need JavaScript to make the user download a disk image. If you don’t just trust any ‘please install this plugin’ prompt you’re fine with or without JavaScript.

We might need a fork of Chromium for that in the future. I hope Mozilla does it, but they seem to be heading towards non-existence burning resources to just copy everything Google does.