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.
Vent
joined 2 years ago
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.
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.
I still have never been able to see white and gold
Tell that to my therapist
diffemples
Oh, and "other AI CEO agrees, saying just imagine a world where everyone uses our AI, isn't it wonderful?"
"Company selling AI snake oil claims that they will maybe consider possibly using AI to run their business maybe and not immediately rehire the engineers they laid off only a few months ago, definitely because of the AI and not for any other reason."
And
"Our custom AI has revolutionized the way we do business and saved us millions! No, you can't see how."
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!