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Just started getting this now. Hopefully it's some A/B testing that they'll stop doing, but I'm not holding my breath

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

No offense intended, but why are you still using Google? Startpage has anonyomized results from Google. DuckDuckGo is good enough for most people as well. Brave search also exists if you don't mind supporting that shitty company.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 56 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I love that society is basically stratifying into groups based on tech knowledge - it all seems very Cyberpunk.

[–] bad_alloc@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The more technology pervades society the more pronounced this will get. The sheer helplessness of people when faced with problems that seem trivial to some is scary. Especially when you see people losing final theses or critical work related data because they never learned about backups.

Add to that tech companies trying to hide the concept of a file system, and it seems like this is by design to sell more shit.

[–] 2deck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, obscuring and abstracting away the atomic units of the system is a classic.

On the other hand self-education has never been easier, and there are open source alternatives of pretty much everything.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 29 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

As someone with technical knowledge sometimes I get locked out of things because I block ads or refuse Javascript. For instance, I had to turn off my pihole so I could sign into my Microsoft account to play Minecraft. Or the times I encounter a website that breaks on Firefox.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The Microsoft Minecraft login thing is getting pretty insane.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

The worst part was that it just showed a black window, with no controls or indication of what was wrong. Thankfully this sort of thing happens so often my first reaction is to turn off my pihole for a few minutes.

[–] turtletracks@lemmy.zip 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

If you're getting locked out of those things, those things are not worth using

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

I'm pretty sure my divorce lawyer's document management system is something that's worth using even if I have to use chrome and disable ad blocking.

[–] turtletracks@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, of course, but that's a little out of the realm of your control. Minecraft isnt lol

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Sometimes people need to play minecraft with their nephews or nieces. Trust me, it's necessary and very much worth it.

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 13 hours ago

This is my stance.

Like, the cost of doing business is jumping through stupid ass hoops. If you don't want to do that, don't join? Or be okay with doing funky ass work arounds.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

https://search.inetol.net/

It's also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

https://searx.space/

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[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 59 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

I know this may come off as a surprise: but I imagine that requiring JS in 2024 isn't a big deal to most people.

Now of course Lemmy skews more into that small crowd.

I don't blame any website for requiring JS for full functionality in 2024.

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 3 points 8 hours ago

I agree that it's not a big deal, but there still should be an option in my opinion. It can be a lifesaver to be able to search on older devices.

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 29 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

All of the people replying to this saying you shouldn't need JS are totally unaware how modern web development works.

Yes, you could do many sites without JS, but the entire workforce for web development is trained with JS frameworks. To do otherwise would slow development time down significantly, not allow for certain functionality to exist (functionality you would 100% be unhappy was missing).

Its not a question of possibility, its a question of feasibility.

I’m a React dev. You can create server side websites, written in JS, that don’t require JS to be turned on in the browser. Granted, this just became a new official feature in React but has already been available with React frameworks like NextJS

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 13 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

My question is if it wasn't required before and is required now, what changed? It's not like Google has added a killer feature recently - this is almost certainly related to those shitty AI answers that are forcing your actual search results even further down the page than they were already.

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It wasn't required, but id wager 99% of website that exist currently run JS in some form or another for something.

Id wager its impossible to have anything dynamic on a webpage without JS (minus visual dynamics which can be handled with css), at that point you have to replace it with a different programming language and every browser needs to completely change gears to allow other code to run instead. But what advantage is gained by changing to another programming language? Cleaner code w/ less jankyness? Sure I guess, but we would be moving mountains to accomplish a silly thing.

I'm wondering if many people in this thread understand what JS is and does.

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I wish JS would die and we get nice and simple websites back. I hate web dev so god damn much. The internet is pure enshittification

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 10 points 9 hours ago

I don't know how to tell you this, but removing JS doesn't turn the internet into a wonderland. Capitalism is to blame for enshitification not JS

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 58 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Google is a text input and a list of links. It should work without JS.

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[–] Flipper@feddit.org 26 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

For full functionality sure. For basic functionality no. Searching on Google is basic functionality I'd say.

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[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 18 points 15 hours ago

I've been happy with Qwant lately, they have their own index so using them doesn't support the Google + Bing hegemony. They're also EU based and regulated by the gdpr.

[–] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I might be out of my depth here, but isn't like virtually the entire internet powered by Javascript? What are the negative implications for Google requiring JS?

[–] m_f@midwest.social 19 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

A lot of the web is powered by JS, but much less of it needs to be. Here's a couple of sites that are part of a trend to not unnecessarily introduce it:

http://youmightnotneedjs.com/

https://htmx.org/

The negative implications for Google requiring JS is that they will use it to track everything possible about you that they can, even down to how you move your cursor, or how much battery you have left on your phone in order to jack up prices, or any other number of shitty things.

[–] Chingzilla@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Htmx does use javascript under the hood, but just makes it so the developer can use html markdown for more a more interactive environment that's driven sever side. So the initial page load should render, but UI elements might not work as intended.

htmx is more a move back to REST as it was originally defined (aka not json backend).

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 53 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Yep. I use Noscript and DDG Lite by default. Just putting into duckduckgo: !g will search google without having to turn JS on...looks like Duckduckgo wins again, even when it comes to using google, lol.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

why are you using google in 2024 grandpa

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[–] unrushed233@lemmings.world 21 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Use LibreX or a fork called LibreY, it's a JS-free proxy for Google search

There's a list of instances at https://librey.org/instances.php

Something similar exists for DuckDuckGo btw, it's called 4get

Or you can just use SearXNG, a meta search engine that aggregates results from multiple sources

[–] chM5tZ8zMp@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 hours ago

Sweet, just tried using the LibRedirect Firefox plugin to redirect search to these instances and it worked!

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