Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

>“Enabling JavaScript allows us to better protect our services and users from bots and evolving forms of abuse and spam,” the spokesperson told TechCrunch

I really wish TechCrunch hadn't let the spokesperson off the hook so easily for that statement. How could using Google without JavaScript be "safer" in any shape or form?

Related discussion as linked in article: ("users on social media")

Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719865

Google hasn't been the first place I search in ages, but it was nice to have it as an option. Not nice enough to justify enabling JS though. Leaving JS disabled enabled most of the major annoyances Google has been shoving down people's throats.

If I hadn't already quit using Google Search years ago, I might do so now.