JavaScript Requirement Debate

The cluster debates whether websites should require JavaScript to function properly, with users advocating to boycott such sites for poor accessibility and site owners defending their design choices and suggesting non-users simply avoid them.

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Sample Comments

michaelmior Aug 12, 2022 View on HN

It's not, but why ignore the express wishes of website owners?

paulie_a Mar 5, 2018 View on HN

Then those sites do not deserve your business

marcosdumay Jul 20, 2015 View on HN

Well, you shouldn't expect people that can not use your site to use your site...

tjoff Oct 19, 2022 View on HN

Instead, don't visit sites that don't care about it's users.

asdadsdad Jun 29, 2021 View on HN

Then they complain when people scrape their site...

NikolaeVarius Apr 20, 2020 View on HN

I really wish sites would stop doing this.

nsxwolf May 6, 2020 View on HN

It's a choice so many site owners have made that the web is effectively ruined.

Nursie Mar 21, 2020 View on HN

God no, sites shouldn't be told whether I'm looking at them or not.

TomMarius Mar 16, 2017 View on HN

What's stopping you from not using such sites?

quantified Nov 7, 2024 View on HN

Shouldn't believe that people are looking at the web site?