Plain HTML is unsafe for Reddit, which is a company, and needs a safe revenue stream.

Note, Reddit is a publically traded company with a P/E higher than NVidia.

Nothing makes any sense and I hope Reddit crashes as soon as possible with their terrible decisions.

At this point in history, money is a farce, but it's a farce we are forced to participate in at gunpoint.

Here is the recommend app for this, used primarily by the Tor browser.

https://noscript.net/

I use this on news sites to get rid of the paywall.

ublock origin (not to be confused with the lite version) can also do this, and is more flexible. But it's easy to miss this functionality because you have to know about and read some documentation to learn how to turn ublock's "medium" mode on and how the controls work.