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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago

Someone here use still Google for searching? 😳

[–] mr_satan@monyet.cc 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] zerozaku@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

What does this mean?

[–] krnl386@lemmy.ca 13 points 16 hours ago

Soon they’re gonna start using Widevine DRM to encrypt the Javascript required to access the search results. πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

[–] zeca@lemmy.eco.br 57 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Wolfie@lemm.ee 5 points 15 hours ago

True. I am one of those. I just use duckduckgo or swisscows or brave search.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 19 points 20 hours ago

This breaks things like Whoogle that used the JavaScript-less api to pull search results.

[–] andreas@lemmy.kfed.org 17 points 19 hours ago

SearXNG solves this (and many other problems)

[–] Oestradiolo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] bebrusas@lemmy.ml 43 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] hakase@lemm.ee 25 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 15 points 22 hours ago

Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 19 hours ago

I wish they would fix the bug where I can't click "images" with js disabled

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 23 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 19 hours ago

I wish they would fix the bug where I can't click "images" with js disabled

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 .

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

What's the best alternative to Google these days?

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What’s the best alternative to Google these days?

I use Kagi, it's great (great results, no ads, no tracking, a lot of clever filtering tools) but it's paid. Free, I would use Brave Search but I doesn't give me as good results as Kagi.

Edit: added links.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 6 points 21 hours ago

I use SearxNG, found a good, reliable instance that is close to my location.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Typo in your link (but not in the text). https://searx.space

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 21 hours ago
[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Undertaker@feddit.org 5 points 19 hours ago

Startpage.com does not

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Why it is important to use alternative metadata fetcher like searxng

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

you're right, but startpage is slower than lightweight google :p

[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 3 points 21 hours ago

Startpage, it's an alternative search. But it's not without its own problems.

[–] Tender@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

Motherf***ers