Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
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.
Soon they’re gonna start using Widevine DRM to encrypt the Javascript required to access the search results. 🤦🏻♂️
This used to be a great feature for vintage computers. If the machine had internet, you could search with HTTP site instead of HTTPS.
The alternatives listed here might not require JS, but most if not all of them require SSL. Vintage computers struggle to support that. Anyway, Google is best avoided when possible so hopefully an alternative surfaces .
SearXNG solves this (and many other problems)
i would guess that people that deactivate js are fine not using google for search
True. I am one of those. I just use duckduckgo or swisscows or brave search.
This breaks things like Whoogle that used the JavaScript-less api to pull search results.
I mean on the list of reasons not to use Google, I feel like this one is pretty low.
Startpage.com does not
I wish they would fix the bug where I can't click "images" with js disabled
This coincides with Google search getting worse and now including the AI slop.
What's the best alternative to Google these days?
I use SearxNG, found a good, reliable instance that is close to my location.
What’s the best alternative to Google these days?
I use Kagi, it's great (great results, no ads, no tracking, a lot of clever filtering tools) but it's paid. Free, I would use Brave Search but I doesn't give me as good results as Kagi.
Edit: added links.
Typo in your link (but not in the text). https://searx.space
What’s the best alternative to Google these days?
I think that's like asking what's the best alternative to bread.
The bread has mold and there's weird stuff growing all over it.
You know right best alternative to bread is plane cake ingredients are identical but process is different thats all
Not really. I haven’t used Google Search in close to a decade.
Why it is important to use alternative metadata fetcher like searxng
Luckily, as of today I can still set my user agent to something like a Playstation or ancient firefox/IE to get a lightweight HTML-based page. The results are in www.google.com/url?q= format but I can use a redirector extension for that.
Motherf***ers