Yes!

At first I literally couldn't believe what I was seeing - ZERO third-party bullshit in uMatrix. Not just none to unblock to make the site work - none at all!

(Apparently you can make a website without downloading Bootstrap from someone's external CDN...)

And then... oh my God, how fast the site is. I can actually feel I have a somewhat modern, powerful computer. Usual day-to-day browsing makes me forget that.

So yeah, for this reason alone I'll be using and recommending this site. Great job!

I tried doing our site like that several times but everyone just complains it's ugly... sigh

CSS and design skills have nothing to do with having JavaScript disabled.

You'd think so, but I've heard plenty of web-devs complain that sites look "ugly" just because it was built without JS. I'm not saying it makes sense, but I've definitely heard it.

with all free services it starts this way ( look at imgur and so on. ) and eventually ends in ads ridden monster.

but we usually end up in a couple of years great service, before they figure out that they could be earning money with serving ads or selling data.

Let's be grateful for what we have now.

The cycle is usually completed by another free service starting and being usable for the next few years, and in this case there's no pain in switching (no content you uploaded and spread URLs to), so I wouldn't worry.

On the other hand, in the age of HTML "hello world" including an Angular installation, downloading Bootstrap from external CDN, and at least three different kind of tracking scripts, I think sites like this one need to be praised loudly.

I never see any banners on Imgur. I block banners.

What Extratorrents and The Pirate Bay do tho seems to be something akin to clickjacking. I click on a link to a torrent search result (or a download link), a tab opens, and it immediately closes. Rest assured this generates them money.

That is your adblocker closing the popup as soon as it opens. For users without an adblocker the tab stays open.

Awesome