I politely disagree: today usage of js should be considered
criminal not only because of privacy but because of IT {e,in}volution at a whole. In the past all
desktop OSes are document-based and work in peer to peer networks (starting from Xerox workstations) since them we only have made
crap to copycat those historical systems in buggy, limited and limiting ways just to avoid leaving end users any control of the system they use.
Such move is harmful for the society and must end before it's too late. We must came back to classic desktop computing and punishing all evolution that try to lock users. Modern web(cr)apps fall in this very category.
It's very asinine for instance forcing people's on crappy bloated banking portals instead of agree around a common and standard API (like SEPA OpenBank) leaving users using their favorite local app where all transactions are locally stored, digitally signed by the bank so source of truth in user hand, always available, with as many banks as users want under a common user-chosen UI. No need for crappy monsters WebVM, no need for gazillion of resources just to keep pushing around garbage mostly used for surveillance. The same apply to taxes and pretty anything else.
Personally I like reading post with Firefox reader just to avoid being distracted by the crap added to most websites, if a website does not render in Reader or without js I simply avoid it.