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Most webpages, even simple ones that do not strictly need to be designed to require js, will entirely fail to render (blank page) without js. The situation has become a lot worse in the last 2 years or so.

It’s a requirement for a general purpose, modern browser, unfortunately, even one without a bunch of bells and whistles.

This is the case even for many municipal or government sites, to say nothing of business products/services/vendors. You can’t use the web as a private citizen for normal things like banking or civic participation without js.



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