This is why I use NoScript. If a website doesn't work without JS, usually I unblock the least shady domain and see what happens. uBlock Origin helps a lot too.

You're a good citizen :^)

Why does Gawker care when most of their revenue is from bad articles written by the political correctness police?

This quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri becomes relevant.

As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
-Commissioner Pravin Lal

But time never ravages your creations, your tunnels never collapse and your cities never become ruins. Unless you play SMP.

>inb4 muh vidya games

Is there any way to reënable the HTTP:// beginning of URLs?

Using it to reply to your comment, albeit heavily tweaked to look and act like the old versions.