It's a pity that archive.today walls off their saved pages behind a Google CAPTCHA, which requires JavaScript. I would think avoiding that kind of fingerprinting/tracking would be a common use case for an archive site, but the Google-wall renders archive.today useless for that purpose.
If you do already program, have you never been exposed to JavaScript at all? If not, I think you should use that curiosity to find out what JavaScript is and what effects disabling it may have.
Even more odd when I see that the majority of your comments are really just posting archive links to bypass a paywall. Not an issue with me per se, but even more surprising to be ignorant of JS at that point.
2. I never considered that because it's called "hacker news" it's intended only for hackers.
3. I have never written a line of code, much less programmed.
4. I have zero curiosity about JavaScript.
5. "Even more odd when I see that the majority of your comments are really just posting archive links to bypass a paywall." In fact, 99% of those archive links are to primary articles I post which in fact ARE paywalled. Since by being a paying subscriber to a number of publications I am able to provide "Gift Links" as well, as a courtesy to HN readers I go to the time and trouble of posting them as well as archive links.
There is some distaste on your part for this practice — "Not an issue with me per se" implies the opposite.
In your opinion "even more surprising to be ignorant of JS at that point" — I fail to see any connection between being ignorant of JS to posting archive links — I will going forward cease and desist from posting both "Gift Links" and archive links and instead let you do it, since you clearly have knowledge of JavaScript and believe it important for providing such links.
A lot of misunderstandings but let’s not have that dissuade any goodwill. Please continue and carry on at your leisure.
The benefits can be huge, however. For example, many paywalls would stop working, meaning, you get to see the entire content without it being blocked by the paywall, because many paywalls are implemented through JavaScript, thus, they can't block anything if you don't have JavaScript.
It'd also block all those annoying cookie dialogs, too. You still have to be able to re-enable it per-site, otherwise, you won't be able to use many sites, because some require JavaScript for login/rendering and other stuff.
Actually, they do not; but I'm not sure what's the heuristics. I've disabled all the protections in Brave for archive.today/is/ph, and not getting the captchas anymore.
I've only started getting them when moving to Brave in the first place.
It's only fair — if you block them, they block you.