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 mean on the list of reasons not to use Google, I feel like this one is pretty low.
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.
Startpage.com does not
I wish they would fix the bug where I can’t click “images” with js disabled
Thank you dgg
Thank you, DuckGoGo
DuckGuckGo
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I wish they would fix the bug where I can’t click “images” with js disabled
Why it is important to use alternative metadata fetcher like searxng
Motherf***ers
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.
Better abandon google search for something else at this point. Even if alternative search engine calls bing and google, at least they take this BS out of the way
you’re right, but startpage is slower than lightweight google :p
