Welcome to the world of SPAs. Where every little thing needs its own application.
Damn it, we even have HTML tags that are impossible to employ in their entirety without use of JavaScript. <dialog> is infuriating and is literally two attributes away from not needing JavaScript.
Except on Chrome. Dialog is broken on Chrome and you will have to clean up with JavaScript after chrome’s own half assed implementation.
The difference between a SPA and any other site these days is simply where the application runs and what languages you can build it with, though less the latter with options like wasm.
Wow, it turns out I'm not the only person to have ever used "privacy browser".
I still have it in case some page has issues with Firefox (probably the issue is not actually with Firefox but with the extensions I installed).
I only stopped using privacy browser as my daily driver because it uses WebView which is based on the Chromium engine and therefore makes the Chromium monopoly bigger. But it was still a nice browser.
tracking, ads, cookies, probably bot detection, too. they want it all running and enabled.
fuck 'em. on desktop, i just drag over the headline and search via right click menu for an alternate site that re-publishes nyt articles or has one that covers the same thing.