It can certainly come across as a "weird trend" but I've found that the most insistent for disabling JS are the folks who have deep knowledge of browsers and the security plane running webapps. YMMV.

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micromacrofoot 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't drive a car because I have deep knowledge of mortality statistics, but I don't complain when I can't easily get somewhere 100 miles away

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Dylan16807 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Showing a paragraph of text with some social links around it is like going down the block. If that requires a car you do have a problem.

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micromacrofoot an hour ago | parent [-]

yeah but it's an extreme fringe choice... I too make extreme fringe choices but I don't expect 99.9% of the people who don't make my extreme fringe choice to change on my behalf

hell, use a browser in a sandbox if you're that paranoid

there are a number of ways to do this securely, at this point it's practically a child's tantrum

but sure maybe it just needs a couple more decades of complaining in obscure comment sections and everyone will finally get it and switch back to mailing lists

	▲	rezonant an hour ago \| parent [-]
		ooh, don't forget irc