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> if I choose to let it run at all, which I won't if I can avoid it.

It's not rare for people with a security/privacy background to only allow whitelisted sites to run JS.

And - what's the point? Websites that want to track you will track you anyway, there's a whole array of technologies that will let them to, and won't display anything to you if you don't run JS. Security objections are pointless, it's not 2001, JS is not anything new, and it's not at all a security risk, browsers are sandboxed and well isolated.

The objections to JS on security grounds are not about tracking. Browsers doing JIT are not as isolated as you may wish them to be.

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