It's probably best to remove Google from the search engines in the default dillorc because it no longer works in browsers without Javascript support: https://www.osnews.com/story/141570/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-g... In Dillo Google now redirects me to a page saying: "Turn on JavaScript to keep searching"
Hi, On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 08:00:58AM +1100, Kevin Koster wrote:
It's probably best to remove Google from the search engines in the default dillorc because it no longer works in browsers without Javascript support: https://www.osnews.com/story/141570/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-g...
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, but yeah not ideal. See also: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719865 https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/318978583 I suspect they still "care" a bit about non-JS browsers, they just don't test Dillo and their stupid support system doesn't let me pass the message to the engineering team. I still don't have much hope it will last long for those browsers. I would leave it for now, until it stops working with any UA. Best, Rodrigo.
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>
This is good news. I suppose, that it indicates that they are worried of something that is currently happening. Here is an example case to realize that popularity decreases on US based operations, and the various of issues that indicate how desperate they are. https://rumble.com/v6antfd-tech-lobby-aipac-and-biden-behind-tiktok-ban.html So, I think that we should be glad about it and provide different search services. Perhaps Dillo should have a built-in DHT-based search interface (such as of Kad of eMule) that would communicate with instances such as 4get, Marginalia, MetaGer, SearxNG, Wiby, YaCy etc. Would not that be fun? Would not that solve many issues that not only Dillo faces? Regards, Schimon On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:00:58 +1100 "Kevin Koster" <dillo@ombertech.com> wrote:
It's probably best to remove Google from the search engines in the default dillorc because it no longer works in browsers without Javascript support: https://www.osnews.com/story/141570/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-g...
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Please refrain from bringing political or religious commentary here, dillo-dev is not an appropriate venue for that. Schimon Jehudah <sch@fedora.email> wrote:
This is good news.
I suppose, that it indicates that they are worried of something that is currently happening.
Here is an example case to realize that popularity decreases on US based operations, and the various of issues that indicate how desperate they are.
https://rumble.com/v6antfd-tech-lobby-aipac-and-biden-behind-tiktok-ban.html
So, I think that we should be glad about it and provide different search services.
Perhaps Dillo should have a built-in DHT-based search interface (such as of Kad of eMule) that would communicate with instances such as 4get, Marginalia, MetaGer, SearxNG, Wiby, YaCy etc.
Would not that be fun?
Would not that solve many issues that not only Dillo faces?
Regards, Schimon
On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:00:58 +1100 "Kevin Koster" <dillo@ombertech.com> wrote:
It's probably best to remove Google from the search engines in the default dillorc because it no longer works in browsers without Javascript support: https://www.osnews.com/story/141570/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-g...
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