I’m the opposite. “How long do I have to lay awake before it’s not too early to leave”.

I really want to sleep more but my brain says, nah!

They probably have a fall back to long polling or similar.

What privacy concerns do you want to address by disabling ws? It’s just another protocol that is more efficient for certain use cases. The information that can be sent via ws or normal http requests is the same, so from a privacy standpoint it doesn’t really make a difference.