Thing is, I can understand how something might just not work without JavaScript. And cookies I'm prepared to accept the tradeoff with.
But local storage? It consistently astonishes me to find sites which completely refuse to even load any visible content unless they get access to local storage, when there's no reason whatsoever to need it. And I don't just mean sites that use it as a proxy for detecting incognito/private windows (who are, obviously, trying to force acceptance of tracking in order to view anything), I mean JavaScript demos which should run perfectly fine without needing to store anything client-side but still get built to use local storage, and to fail not at all gracefully when it isn't available.
But local storage? It consistently astonishes me to find sites which completely refuse to even load any visible content unless they get access to local storage, when there's no reason whatsoever to need it. And I don't just mean sites that use it as a proxy for detecting incognito/private windows (who are, obviously, trying to force acceptance of tracking in order to view anything), I mean JavaScript demos which should run perfectly fine without needing to store anything client-side but still get built to use local storage, and to fail not at all gracefully when it isn't available.