Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript in order to use Google Search, possibly in an effort to block certain SEO tools.
the quality of search results tends to be degraded [without JavaScript].
Lol, how? That’s such bullshit.
Seriously, that’s such an absurd statement. It implies that the client-side affects the actual results.
I think their system just makes more money with sponsored gimmicks they might be enhancing.
The decline continues.
If you set your user agent to Lynx it won’t need JavaScript
Which proves, without a doubt, that the engine doesn’t need js to load results.
DOS wins again!
Talk about a step in the wrong direction!
Wait, they didn’t before?
No, you could submit a request and just parse the HTML. This allowed people to write search proxies and then filter the results. Not as good as an actual API but it worked.
I have started treating everything as the walled gardens that they are. so I do google on chrome and microsoft on edge and if apple was not so reliant on ios devices I would run safari for them. Then firefox with no script and other essential addons for my real stuff.
I wish I didn’t ever need google but unfortunately sucksuckblow has been getting worse and worse.
Time for Kagi?
So until now Googlers sent a full web form to the backend and replaced the page contents with HTML returned by the server?
Like cavemen…
