Yes, on HN they do, notoriously.

Until just a couple years ago I would regularly read comments complaining when a website doesn't work because the hacker browses with javascript disabled, for example.

This isn't the early-adopter crowd: it's the refuses to even be a late-adopter crowd.

It is the crowd that understands what parts are functional and in fact chooses security over the dancing bears of the world. It isn't an aversion to tech, it is an aversion to doing things which are worse. In this case massive bloat, ads, and tracking of websites which does the opposite of serving the user when they're just looking for text.

Adoption of technology shouldn't be a binary of 'use it for everything/refuse to use it for anything'.