This has zero to do with Adtech for 99.99% of uses, either. Web devs like to write TypeScript and React because that's a very pleasant tech stack for writing web apps, and it's not worth the effort for them to support a deliberately hamstrung browser for < 0.1% of users (according to a recent Google report).
See also: feel free to disable PNG rendering, but I'm not going to lift a finger to convert everything to GIFs.
Be careful with using percentages for your arguments, because this is not that different from saying that 99.99% of people don't need wheelchair access.
Some survey from WebAIM found that 99.3% of screen reader users have JavaScript enabled.
So... are they really in accessibility territory still? Only people I still see complaining about Javascript being required are people that insist the web should just be static documents with hyperlinks like it was in the early 90s.
Can you find a modern source with valid reasons for accomodating non-JS users?
I think this hits the crux of the trend fairly well.
And is why I have so many workarounds to shitty JS in my user files.
Because I can't see your CSS, either.
your PNG/GIF thing is nonsense (false equivalence, at least) and seems like deliberate attempt to insult
> I'm marginally sympathetic
you say that as if they've done some harm to you or anyone else. outside of these three words, you actually seem to see anyone doing this as completely invalid and that the correct course of action is to act like they don't exist.
> you say that as if they've done some harm to you or anyone else.
I was literally responding to someone referring to themselves as "collateral damage" and saying I'm playing into "Big Adtech's playbook". I explained why they're wrong.
> the correct course of action is to act like they don't exist.
Unless someone is making a site that explicitly targets users unwilling or unable to execute JavaScript, like an alternative browser that disables it by default or such, mathematically, yes, that's the correct course of action.