i would guess that people that deactivate js are fine not using google for search
This breaks things like Whoogle that used the JavaScript-less api to pull search results.
Any idea if it will break SearXNG?
True. I am one of those. I just use duckduckgo or swisscows or brave search.
Thank you dgg
Thank you, DuckGoGo
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I wish they would fix the bug where I can’t click “images” with js disabled
This coincides with Google search getting worse and now including the AI slop.
What’s the best alternative to Google these days?
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.
Typo in your link (but not in the text). https://searx.space/
Thx, fixed
I use SearxNG, found a good, reliable instance that is close to my location.
What’s the best alternative to Google these days?
I think that’s like asking what’s the best alternative to bread.
The bread has mold and there’s weird stuff growing all over it.
Not really. I haven’t used Google Search in close to a decade.
You know right best alternative to bread is plane cake ingredients are identical but process is different thats all
I wish they would fix the bug where I can’t click “images” with js disabled
That no bug. There just no html search for image.
You just described a bug
No. Missing feature is not bug.
You not write bugreport, you write feature request.
Image search already exists. Its just missing for some users. That’s a bug, not a new feature request
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.
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
you’re right, but startpage is slower than lightweight google :p
The what page
Startpage, it’s an alternative search. But it’s not without its own problems.
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.
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Startpage.com does not
What does this mean?
Wait this is new? I wasn’t able to use google without JS for sometime.
