i would guess that people that deactivate js are fine not using google for search

Thank you dgg

This coincides with Google search getting worse and now including the AI slop.

What's the best alternative to Google these days?

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=%25s

SearXNG solves this (and many other problems)

Soon they’re gonna start using Widevine DRM to encrypt the Javascript required to access the search results. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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.

Someone here use still Google for searching? 😳

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 .

I mean on the list of reasons not to use Google, I feel like this one is pretty low.

Startpage.com does not

What does this mean?

Wait this is new? I wasn't able to use google without JS for sometime.