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Joe Rogan Blasts ‘Bulls**t Game’ of ‘Pretending’ Everyone Is ‘Hitler’ After Elon Musk Accused of ‘Nazi Salute’: ‘Crying Wolf’ in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Key word is "watching". They're more than happy to have an audience as long as they get what they want. And they do and they are.

Am I the only one who finds it frustrating how sites seem to be prioritizing mobile users over PC users? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fret not! Lots and lots of apps are just PWAs packaged into thin wrappers so they can be distributed through an app store. Humanity gets all, or at least most, of the benefits of the web with unmatched cross-platform support, and our Grandmothers and 12 year olds still get to tap on the Spotify and Starbucks icons. Win-win!

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting that that is the workflow that works best for you. I've personally always found it a much better experience to do my searching/browsing off of the server and wget whatever I need to download. If that's truly your situation, then you may just need to use another browser that supports JS or use a different search engine. I prefer DDG anyway, lol. Not a huge deal.

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You've seriously been in situations where you had no access to the internet except through a terminal, and you had to do a google search? No phone or other computer that you're remoting in from?

Even so, there are terminal-based browsers that support javascript like brow.sh or links (not lynx).

I doubt the nothing-but-terminal users comprise a significant enough portion of Google's userbase to justify the extra costs to test and maintain non-JS functionality.

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I think this isn't a case of if Google can, but rather of why they should. Do enough people really use the modern web without JavaScript to justify spending the resources to test and maintain functionality without JS? And they probably don't want to let the few people that don't have JS to open support tickets or write articles about how google.com is broken. Easier to just block it on purpose than to let it decay.

It makes more sense that a government website would support it, since they can't let even a single person fall through the cracks, and changing laws/regulations is more difficult than making a company decision.

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search in c/[email protected]

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Google is a lot more than just the one google.com page. And even if it were, JS adds some nice features like predective text / suggested searches.

Tracking, ads, and AI can be done without JS. They may be slightly less granular in the same way as the user experience will be slightly worse, but disabling JS won't stop it.

I'd bet the biggest reason Google decided to do this is so that they don't have to support a version of the site that virtually nobody uses.

Imo, the most compelling reason for non-JS versons of typically JS-driven sites is to support lower power devices. But it's 2025 and even a 10 year old phone you found in a dumpster behind a decaying Radio Shack can run modern websites without issue.

Even the article is grasping at straws for why this might be bad. "It might make accessibility more difficult or add security issues". One of the most valuable companies in the world, with some of the best engineers in the world, is going to have problems adding aria attributes and updating dependencies? Give me a break.

If you want to block tracking, ads, and "AI", there are plenty of ways to do that without disabling literally all JS. If you want to construct your google search request without the rest of the stuff on google.com, use your browser's search bar.

I'm as anti-google/tracking/etc as the next guy, and I've been using DDG almost exclusively for years, but I'm not going to pretend like asking companies to make HTML/CSS-only versions of their sites is a reasonable request in the modern web environment. It can be really fun and cool to build a site without JS, but there aren't many scenarios where it's actually beneficial.

The replies in this thread are just plain ignorant. Basically every website uses JS heavily and disabling all JS with something like noscript is just a plain bad time.

Even in your comment, every sentence is wrong. Google searches are done with GET requests, and there are plenty of reasons to force JS other than tracking, ads, and ai.

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search in c/[email protected]

Time to stir the pot in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago (28 children)

I still have never been able to see white and gold

Steam Deal: Save 65% on Golf With Your Friends on Steam in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Tell that to my therapist

Being judged by your math book in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

diffemples

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff might not hire software engineers in 2025 | Windows Central in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, and "other AI CEO agrees, saying just imagine a world where everyone uses our AI, isn't it wonderful?"