I find it kind of humorous that the "mobile demo" seems to have been made on a Mac, complete with a cursor, and then resized to have a mobile border around it.
JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
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Re: JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
#12For about a month or so I tried browsing with JavaScript turned off but gave up after having to modify settings for just about every single site I visited to get pages working, often with them silently failing in the background leaving me wondering what was going on. Sometimes I'd get halfway through a payment transaction before realising that the lack of JavaScript was preventing it from going through and then chang…
Same exact journey for me.
Re: JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
#13I don't want google to protect me in this way. Can I opt out?
Re: JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
#14As others have mentioned, nearly the entire internet breaks without javascript - it's a sad state of affairs.
One protection I like to use is to disable javascript that is loaded over plaintext http - this breaks nearly nothing, and is easy to do via Chrome settings: https://i.imgur.com/NRVg5Xf.png
Re: JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
#15I don't want google to protect me in this way. Can I opt out?
Don't use Google?
Re: JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
#16> But, because it may save bandwidth or help pages load more quickly, a tiny minority of our users (0.1%) choose to keep it off. This might make sense if you are reading static content, but we recommend that you keep Javascript on while signing into your Google Account so we can better protect you. They don’t seem to explain why though? Did I miss it? Are they fingerprinting the JavaScript environment of my browser?…
Additionally they imply the only motivation for disabling JavaScript is to increase performance and decrease bandwidth. They conveniently don’t mention the other, arguably more prevalent motivations: to increase privacy and security.
Re: JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
#17Chrome team members have said that preventing modern web browsers from leaking enough entropy to uniquely identify users across sessions (fingerprinting) is impractical with all of the features that the modern web provides.
This sentiment has probably lead to some at Google to think that it is justifiable impose pervasive tracking and surveillance technologies as a condition for using Google services.
Look at the new ReCAPTCHA v3 to see how fingerprinting is trending at Google.
Re: JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
#18This is coming right after the reCAPTCHA v3 announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18331159 Sorry, you don't have enough Google Points to browse the web. Please enable JavaScript and install Google Chrome.
Haha yeah, thanks for the recommendation Google. Chrome is never gonna come back on my PC.
Re: JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
#19For about a month or so I tried browsing with JavaScript turned off but gave up after having to modify settings for just about every single site I visited to get pages working, often with them silently failing in the background leaving me wondering what was going on. Sometimes I'd get halfway through a payment transaction before realising that the lack of JavaScript was preventing it from going through and then chang…
You can add exceptions to websites you visit you know..
Re: JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
#20Amusingly, the article is perfectly readable with javascript off, but with only first-party js allowed, it's blank.