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.
Now please learn about Progressive enhancement. If you ever do a webpage, use this.
Modern web designers: “Nope. Best I can do is ‘You must enable Javascript to view this webpage.’”
It’s a dark pattern to steal your data.
Its a dark pattern to make me instantly leave the web page.
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.
nice timing, I heard of it literally today from this Smashing Magazine article :D
Ooh, nice! Will read.