Comment by dageshi

Of course, it's not the huge number of bots attempting to manipulate google which numerous posters on this thread have also run into (they must be shills as well!) necessitating a JS requirement.

No it's google who wants to get their claws into the last 0.000001% of true believers who're dodging their fiendish JS tracking! I'm sure they're salivating at the prospect of the revenue bump that group militant anti-advertisers is going to offer...

We live on an internet where "not conforming" to what an ordinary user looks like makes you look like a bot. Google certainly didn't invent that and definitely doesn't want bots trying to manipulate its services, but by all means continue to "google bad!" while avoiding any and all evidence to the contrary.