Tt post may 29 2017

"Rather than the normal truck load of slow-me-downs and creepy crawlies ..."

Go into your web browser's settings and disable JavasScript for specific domain names. Or install a browser add-on.

For Chrome, install Quick JavaScript Switcher. For Firefox, install NoScript. If you use Lynx, then you are already in good shape.

If you access many websites as a browsing-only user or reader where you don't log into the site, then disabling JavaScript will speed up your web experience considerably.

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious

Occasionally, you will encounter a website that fails to display content when JavaScript is disabled.

Media orgs that give away their content for free and rely on web advertising for revenue have created some of the worst websites on the planet due to the massive bloat caused by ads, trackers, and other embedded crapware.

The total download for a single web article published by many media orgs is larger than the entire HTML version of "War and Peace."

Client-side JavaScript is not the problem. The misuse and abuse of JavaScript is the problem.

But the dreaded "stakeholders" at media orgs demand that developers and designers include more abusive web behaviors that create a reader-hostile experience. Disabling JavaScript is an elegant solution for readers.

Media orgs, however, will claim that such readers are being unethical because disabling JavaScript eliminates the display of most web advertising. That can be viewed as stealing.

Web readers will have to wrestle with this alleged ethical issue on their own. Media orgs chose the business model of giving away their craft for free.