We don’t seem to understand each other.
I am not talking about social media. I am not a big user myself.
I mainly use the web to:
-buy transportation (plane and train tickets,car rental)
-buy stuff I cannot find at retail (e.g: photo chemicals, but also intangible stuff like software, which is only distributed online nowadays)
-read the news, especially when traveling abroad
-and of course forums like this one.
I could cut the forums (but then we would not have the present conversation). I don’t have much choice for the rest:
-travel agencies are gone, so I can only buy tickets online
-I can rent a car in a physical shop, but it costs up to 4 times as much (really)
-stuff I can’t find at retail, I can only find online, by definition
-it is impossible to get foreign news unless on the web. OK: maybe I could get a short wave radio, been there done that 20 years ago and it was fun, but unreliable.
None of what I have cited can be done with javascript disabled. You may think otherwise, believe that free competition between, for example, travel companies will make one of them cater to the needs of travelers who do not want to activate javascript, that is simply not true. There is no competition on that particular feature and, therefore, no alternative.
