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I agree.

But I would go even farther. Block every site where you won't be able to read the content without having Javascript enabled. I have experienced several blogs where you won't see anything without Javascript.

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That's a little much considering all of the sites that are well beyond static content and must load using RESTful requests. This would completely removing a lot of the web. Maybe if everyone used static sites as the standard when it came to huge sites, mainly corporate; then I would agree.

All in all, blocking all sites that load their content would be insane scraping and more than a handful of problems.

I don't know what technology these blogs are using, but on the occasions where I looked at the HTML-source, the content was there. It just didn't show with Javascript disabled.

Yes, you can use Javascript to make things prettier. I have no problem with that. But not showing content that is actually there, that's a no-go for me.

Why should I be deprived of interesting content that requires javascript to be viewed? If you don't want javascript, it's your problem, not mine.

Isn't this a bit extreme? Many websites use client-side rendering via frameworks like Angular, React, etc.

I find it extreme if a site requires JavaScript + hundreds of kilobytes of frameworks in order to display some text. But you're right, such a measure would probably hide useful content from HN users, thus making HN itself less useful.

The point is that for delivering document content like articles to browsers, client side rendering is inferior, and they should be depending on angular or react to render the content.

I do think it's a little extreme to ban sites that do this, but I also don't think that sites should do it and if banning them from HN means they won't then maybe that's not so crazy. I don't think banning them from HN will help, though.

This is about blocking one malicious actor.

Not going all out Richard Stallman. Everybody knows, you never go full Richard Stallman.

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