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Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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Re: Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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Post by pluc »

elbowjack65 wrote: post #4
kragen wrote: post #3

Don't be evil.

Is JavaScript is now evil?

There's absolutely no need for JavaScript on a page that has a text input and two buttons and that has worked without JS for three decades. Given Google's reputation for privacy and the constant attempts at selling their users out, it's fair to assume that the reason they're requiring JavaScript is not noble.

Re: Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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Post by linker3000 »

Well, I read the HN headline and said to myself, I bet this requirement is pitched as "...to enhance the user experience...", and, yep, it's there.

That's akin with a response to some incident where companies "Take [user security etc.] seriously", when the immediate thought is, yeah, but if you did, that [thing] probably wouldn't have happened.

Dunno why I wrote all that - I don't use Google search, because I wanted to enhance (aka unenshitten) my search experience.

Re: Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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Post by jazzyjackson »

gunian wrote: post #10
Hamuko wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Always has been.

If you had to estimate percentage of the web could exist without losing functionality without using JavaScript?

Just fyi the entire browsing and checkout process of Amazon.com works fine without JavaScript, discovering that radicalized me against so called web apps. it just takes actually reading the html spec and maintaining state in the querystring or via session cookie. Latency can be lower than the monstrosities people build with react in the right circumstances.

Re: Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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Post by bolognafairy »

pluc wrote: post #11
elbowjack65 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is JavaScript is now evil?

There's absolutely no need for JavaScript on a page that has a text input and two buttons and that has worked without JS for three decades. Given Google's reputation for privacy and the constant attempts at selling their users out, it's fair to assume that the reason they're requiring JavaScript is not noble.

Okay. But is it evil?
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