Not the person you asked, but speaking for myself, all the time. I have a javascript toggle I use several times a day, and leave it set to off as much as I can.
Google works fine without javascript. Stunningly fast.
I started blocking JS a few weeks ago, and this has been my experience as well - a pleasant surprise.
For a long time I thought that would be a step too far, that browsing would become so annoying and unpredictable because of it. Any annoyance from having to turn on JS for individual sites is easily outweighed by the number of annoyances I avoid - news websites are actually readable, blogs open with their content rather than with an in-your-face pop-up, and as a bonus, I pay attention to things like: how many 3rd party domains is it trying to connect to? does it require 3rd party JS to be enabled to function at all? did they even consider the possibility of disabled JS and bother to write a noscript message? Things like this translate to a measure of trustworthiness to me now, and I've been both horrified (by simple blogs trying to connect to 80+ domains) and pleasantly surprised (by complex-seeming websites that don't use 3rd party JS at all).
Until they block you for "suspicious behavior" after a few minutes of using it like that.
But simply disabling javascript and clicking next a few times is usually enough to set off their blockages. Even when not using a VPN. It happens less if you only ever look at the first page.
[edit] The extension is called Quick Javascript Switcher. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-s...
It works as advertised for being a Javascript toggle.
When i switched to Ublock origin, i didn't even realize how to do this. I just allowed all JS whenever i found broken sites.
Now, this very thread encouraged me to finally figure out Ublock origin settings, and now, finally enable specific JS elements instead of a blanket "allow".
Here is a gret userguide for Ublock origin toggle.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/ultimate-ublock-origin-superu...