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Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

From	Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Date	2025-01-29 20:04 +0000
Organization	Frantic
Message-ID	<861pwl5qu8.fsf@example.com> (permalink)
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote at 13:33 this Tuesday
>>(GMT): > Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 21-Jan-25 5:10 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>>>> Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search by Thom
>>>>>   Holwerda 2025-01-18 -
>>>>>   https://www.osnews.com/story/141570/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-google-search/
>>>>>   " Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on
>>>>>   JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web
>>>>>   pages interactive, in order to use Google Search.  In an email
>>>>>   to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is
>>>>>   intended to "better protect" Google Search against malicious
>>>>>   activity, such as bots and spam, and to improve the overall
>>>>>   Google Search experience for users.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> How is this going to '"better protect" Google Search against
>>>> malicious activity, such as bots and spam'?
>>>
>>> I believe the idea is that if the robot doesn't speak Javascript,
>>> it's an easy denial by the web server.  And making bots speak
>>> Javascript is one step up.  And with Javascript they can likely
>>> monitor things like mouse movement to detect whether the user is a
>>> human or a robot.
>>>
>>> I'm not approving the idea; just sharing what I think they might
>>> have in mind when they say Javascript will help them fend off
>>> robots.
>> 
>> It would also make it harder to scrape, since I /think/ web scrapers
>> don't run JS by default.
>
> Which just means this will push web scrapers to start running JS.
>
> They don't run JS (yet) because they have not needed to run JS to do
> their scraping.  But if JS is required, and they want to scrape bad
> enough, they will put in support for running JS.

Why can't web scrapers just pretend to be Lynx browsers?

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[LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-01-21 07:10 +1000
  Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-21 10:23 +0100
  Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2025-01-21 20:18 +0800
    Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Jan van den Broek <balglaas@dds.nl> - 2025-01-21 12:56 +0000
      Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-21 19:18 +0100
    Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-01-21 10:33 -0300
      Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-01-21 18:12 +0000
      Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-01-22 06:56 +1000
        Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2025-01-23 19:33 +0000
          Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2025-01-24 13:30 +0800
            Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-01-27 20:56 +0000
              Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-01-27 21:02 +0000
      Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-01-29 19:00 +0000
        Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-01-29 19:33 +0000
          Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-01-29 20:04 +0000
            Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2025-01-29 22:15 +0000
              Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-30 10:50 +0100
              Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2025-01-30 18:47 +0000
            Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-01-30 00:53 +0000
              Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-01-30 01:53 +0042
                Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-01-30 03:38 +0000
                Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-01-30 04:43 +0042
        Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-24 05:38 +0000
  Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2025-01-21 15:30 +0000
    Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2025-01-21 16:26 +0000
    Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-21 19:21 +0100
  Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-01-21 19:54 +0000
    Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-01-22 06:47 +1000
      Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-01-21 22:49 +0042
        Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-01-22 13:04 +1000
          Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-01-22 12:58 +0042
          Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2025-01-25 15:15 +0000
  Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2025-01-21 20:57 +0000

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