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

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025, Jim Jackson wrote:

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Oh the irony ... it's ok to scrape everybody else's content to train its
AI/News products, but how dare anyone else try the same to us!

Jim, you're forgetting something. It is also ok to serve up copyrighted material such as movies and tv series to the public witout permission of the owner on youtube, and not get any fines at all!
Woe unto you, if you do that as a small business owner, then the IP lawyers will be after you.

On 2025-01-20, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> 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/
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" 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
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 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." ...
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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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