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

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:

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. 

Which of course is one of Google's main businesses, with their
Captchas that don't always need to show a puzzle in order to
validate users as humans. So if anyone _thinks_ they can achieve
that, you'd expect it to be Google.

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