With Ublock Origin set to block all the Javascript, there are no cookie popups and no scroll breakage.

Switching to reader view fixes this kind of thing, although some sites seem to be able to block it now.

The site constantly reloads for me in iOS and is unusable.

I saw the same behavior in iOS, but switching to the desktop version of the site worked normally.

That’s not cookie pop ups. That’s functional programming strategies poisoning the brains of developers causing them to believe that rewriting their page on every request is preferable because otherwise they have to think about “70,000 page states”.

They’re trading user experience for a mythical silver bullet of programming that some dude on medium told them was the holy grail and proved it using simple, horribly contrived anecdotes.

> rewriting their page on every request

That's not how virtual DOM works.

EDIT: Also the concept of "virtual DOM" is way older than shitty websites themselves (was applied to native GUI stuff before JS was even a thing). What you're seeing is just a shitty website.

Yeah. It’s not like functional programming is known for being slow, and every page adopting these ridiculous strategies has universally gotten worse and slower. Oh wait.

That page does not use React afaict, if that is what you are getting at.