if you self-select into the group that isn't cared about, then do you expect your leaving to be cared about?

i ask only because i'm puzzled as to the purpose of your reply.

I am too small a group to be cared about. But in my opinion only poor designed websites use JS for layout or navigation. And the way back to the search-engine is always just one mouse gesture away. JS = code written by someone with not neccessarily my best interests in mind running on my computer.

Honest question - What are you trying to prove by not enabling JS by default?

I think it's a matter of prevent: links to facebook, linked-in, and god knows what other service; and possibly save some bandwith, cpu time and ram.

I doubt she tries to prove anything. It is probably rather the peace of mind of not having ads stabbing in your eyes, subscribe popups appearing as you scroll, things wiggling around, images fading up in a popup instead of loading directly, protection against exploits and saving bandwidth just to name a few benefits.

Aside from the fact that JavaScript is often poorly written, I generally don't want untrusted code running on my computer.