It's 2016 and Hacker News, this very site, works fine w/o JS (except for search). That's how I'm using it right now. That's how I've always used it.

I can access most of the sites I routinely visit without JS. E.g. The New York Times works better w/o JS because it doesn't block articles or count how many I've read.

And I don't really care if you you will or will not try to hack me if I visit your site with JS on. There are countless other sites who will try exactly that, so why shouldn't my default be "NO"? And if it's not the sites themselves, it's the shitty ad networks they all use; I don't trust those at all.

IMO it's the epitome of hipster arrogance to display nothing useful to people w/o JS.

"hipster arrogance." Ha. I'm 42, got my first email address in 1991 and hardly a hipster. I own a fixie because I used to race on velodromes.

What is the word for people who use the internet in some purposely crippled fashion, just so that they can complain about things not working for them? =)

I run three browsers with varying levels of "openness". It just happened that I visited your website while using NoScript. Turned it off for your site, but I was only greeted by a logo. So my interest was genuine - not trying to be snarky. Why do you force JS to show a logo? And I also don't really know what your company does...