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That depends on your target demographic. JS is more frequently disabled among tech-literate customers, so a cloud provider's home page would probably benefit from working without JS.

> These numbers have also been consistently going down over time.

That trend might reverse if vulnerabilities like these continue to surface.

Right. It’s like designing for any other tiny group: color blind, blind, people who don’t read any of the 3 languages your site is already translated to, etc.

I’m not saying that shouldn’t be done, but business wise its probably usually best to instead add design changes for the latest smartphone screen.

The web isn’t a hypertext graph anymore, it’s a large JavaScript program with a thin html front now.