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I am not a developer, and I learned how to disable JavaScript in Chrome to read this site, out of curiosity. I then checked a few other sites and learned

* Washington Post no longer has a paywall

* anandtech.com is seemingly unaffected, but tomshardware.com is very different (and less pushy)

* SoundCloud says "Oh no! | JavaScript is disabled | You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud"

* nationalreview.com is broken -- I can only read a few paragraphs in a NR PLUS story, and there's no way to keep scrolling (I can read the article fine in another tab)

* An article I co-wrote, published in a Cambridge University Press journal, is now sans tables and figures, but the console reports no errors or exceptions.

An interesting experiment! Overall, it seems my internet experience is better without JS (but reading an academic article online is way worse).