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> sites that shouldn't need it

There's lots of ways to define "shouldn't" in this case

- Shouldn't need it, but include it to track you

- Shouldn't need it, but include it to enhance the page

- Shouldn't need it, but include it to keep their costs down (for example, by loading parts of the page dynamically / per person and caching the rest of the page)

- Shouldn't need it, but include it because it help stop the bots that are costing them more than the site could reasonably expected to make

I get it, JS can be used in a bad way, and you don't like it. But the pillar of righteousness that you seem to envision yourself standing on it not as profound as you seem to think it is.



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