20 Jan
2025
20 Jan
'25
11:30 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:49:41 +0100 Rodrigo Arias <rodarima@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 08:00:58AM +1100, Kevin Koster wrote:
In Dillo Google now redirects me to a page saying: "Turn on JavaScript to keep searching"
Still works if you mimic netsurf, w3m or elinks user agents
That's surprising.
I still don't have much hope it will last long for those browsers.
Certainly since their claimed motivation is "Enabling JavaScript allows us to better protect our services and users from bots and evolving forms of abuse and spam". It's hardly going to take long for bot writers to discover user-agent spoofing.
I would leave it for now, until it stops working with any UA.
Fair enough. -- Kevin Koster <dillo@ombertech.com>