Analyzing noscript usage, and being tracked in the process
When designing the theme for my personal blog, I wanted to make sure that the site would work just fine with JavaScript disabled. All kinds of scripts on this site are merely to add some neat little features here and there. However, this made me wonder about the state of the modern web and its reliance on scripts in the browser. What happens if you strip them away? I checked how websites deal with browsers that don’t allow JavaScript, taking the noscript
HTML element as my metric of choice. And although fewer websites broke than I initially suspected, it shows that you don’t need scripts to effectively track people.