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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.

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