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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:00:04 -0000 (UTC)
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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.
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