Because JavaScript is the last thing you need to serve a blog post consisting of plain text and a couple of images. Forcing more powerful technology than necessary on readers is the polar opposite of what a luddite would do.

It's almost as ironic as the author of an "anticapitalist tech blog" complaining about the hoops they must jump through to sell their users' attention to one of the largest corporations on Earth.

(FWIW, you can find the real post here: https://theluddite.org/posts/google-ads.html

But you will have to override the encoding if your browser doesn't default to UTF-8.)

Maybe you've gotten luddites and carthusians mixed up.

A luddite is a socialist that refuses to allow the capitalist to use technology against the formation of self-organised labour, i.e. a person depriving the owner class of the means of production with the aim of the working class taking control over them. It's not a cloistered order or something like that.