Yeah, I've noticed too. A surprising amount of the web works fine with most scripts blocked, but if I open an article and it's a blank page, chances are I'm just clicking back.

That precludes them from indexing the article in search engines, so thankfully it’s not as popular as it otherwise would be

I have a chrome extension that allows me to toggle on/off as needed. I'm not advocating leaving it off, that breaks a lot of sites.