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By now I am allergic to the word "carry", I just cannot continue reading any more.

The shared hosting package that I bought with my domain 20 years ago from a local hosting company comes with all of these, it cost I think €12/year originally. They got acquired some time ago by a large hosting company who charges more than €120/year for the same package. Then I switched to another local mail provider who charge €40/year (but with more storage). Aren't there many such providers?

"Traffic rides Cloudflare's network" Oh, hello Claude.

I think my subjective feeling is in that ballpark, yes. There are of course many sites that are more like web apps that require js, but those are relatively trusted, I added exceptions for them long ago. For sites that I visit for the first time, I think more than half still work to some extent. Maybe they are slightly broken, but at least I can read the page. I’d say around 20–30% of the web even gets _better_, because you don’t get ads or cookiewalls. But then there are also many sites that just remain a blank page, not even showing a message that js is required. (And as the sibling comment points out, recently Anubis is also becoming more common; maybe in recent months it’s closer to 40–50% unusable.) When I hit that, often I am reminded that I wasn’t that interested anyway, and I close the tab. So maybe it’s more than 30% that breaks, and a more accurate statement would be “of the sites where I ended up reading a page, I had to opt in to js about 30% of the time”.

Right, Anubis is a fair point, that has for sure been rising in recent months. Often when I get an Anubis page, I am reminded that I was doomscrolling and that I did not want to see the page that badly anyway, and I close the tab.

Because it looks like they are trying to appeal to people interested in European digital autonomy, but ISRG, the organization behind Let's Encrypt, is based in the US and has to comply with US sanctions.

Their certificate is issued by Let's Encrypt ...

In Chromium you can turn off V8's JIT compiler for this reason. You can even opt in again for sites you trust that need the additional performance.

> Type confusion in V8

Fortunately I disabled js by default. Unfortunately, it breaks about 30% of the web. Including nvd.nist.gov, which shows a completely blank page without js enabled, even though with js it’s just a simple page with only static content.

"Load-bearing" is maybe not the best example, but Claude uses these anthropomorphized decorative synonyms everywhere. Claude's structs don't have fields, they _carry_ them. Its programs don't log, they _narrate_. Its arguments are not provided on the command line, they _ride_ it. Its modules don't depend on other modules, they _sit_ on them, etc.

About half of the time, when a website doesn't work with js disabled, I realize that I didn't want to see the page that badly anyway, and I close the tab.

What makes you think big SaaS is not vibecoded?