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

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Date	2025-01-21 20:18 +0800
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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. The spokesperson noted
>    that, without JavaScript, many Google Search features won't work
>    properly and that the quality of search results tends to be
>    degraded.
>   Kyle Wiggers at TechCrunch
>   
>   One of the strangely odd compliments you could give Google Search
>   is that it would load even on the weirdest or oldest browsers,
>   simply because it didn't require JavaScript. Whether I loaded
>   Google Search in the JS-less Dillo, Blazer on PalmOS, or the latest
>   Firefox, I'd end up with a search box I could type something into
>   and search. Sure, beyond that the web would be, shall we say,
>   problematic, but at least Google Search worked. With this move,
>   Google will end such compatibility, which was most likely a side
>   effect more than policy." ...
> 
> I switched from Google to Duck Duck Go (Lite) many years ago, but
> it's annoying that I'll have to find another search engine to use
> as a fall-back for when DDG breaks, since I do most of my Web
> browsing in Dillo.
> 

How is this going to '"better protect" Google Search against malicious 
activity, such as bots and spam'?

Sylvia.

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