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From: yeti <yeti@tilde.institute>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: [LINK] Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:53:15 +0042
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

> They could, that is until google simply starts expecting JS to be
> executed regardless of the value of the user agent header.

Then scrapers will add JS to their agents and the users of older
browsers are the only ones reliably locked out.

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