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[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 39 points 2 weeks ago

Modern web designers: "Nope. Best I can do is 'You must enable Javascript to view this webpage.'"

[-] grue@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

It's a dark pattern to steal your data.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Its a dark pattern to make me instantly leave the web page.

[-] Zagorath@quokk.au 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe sometimes, especially among the bigger and more infamously privacy-invasive sites.

A lot of the time, though, it's just that it's the easiest way to write a website. Particularly if you're using modern frameworks, you have to go quite a way out of your way to send static HTML that works well without JS enabled.

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