Alternatively, when you don't need to be running full throttle, you get better battery life. Which any consumer will appreciate. And is also perhaps an environmental win, if it allows them to get away with smaller batteries.
That said, the experience of trying to browse a local newspaper's website with NoScript turned off on my 2015 MacBook Pro tells me that, yes, JS on shitty websites is a problem. And not one that most people would find to be particularly avoidable. Heck, even GMail is getting to be noticeably slow on that computer.
That said, the experience of trying to browse a local newspaper's website with NoScript turned off on my 2015 MacBook Pro tells me that, yes, JS on shitty websites is a problem. And not one that most people would find to be particularly avoidable. Heck, even GMail is getting to be noticeably slow on that computer.