JJ,

Google used to work fine even before it's infected with JS.

For me (with JS disabled) it still seems to work fine ...

From advanced search, unsafe search, verbatim search, to
specifying the date range of the results. Everything were done
without JS.

.... that is, it doesn't seem to matter if I search from its front page, or
go to the "advanced search" and put my keywords into the "all these words:"
box. In both cases I get a *lot* of "hits" that do not even seem to be
related to the keywords I used. :-(

Though a "-" prefix to a word still seems to dependantly do its thing :
excluding that word. Go figure. :-(


Those "consent" pages or popups are a joke. They're more like
a confirmation page/popup for asking users whether they want to
use the service **and** be tracked, or... get the hell out.

As I have disabeled JS I do not see such popups. Ever.

And you know, I've encountered /very few/ website which did put an
intermediate "consent" page up (mostly of the kind you described, but which
is actually forbidden under the "cookie law"), and actually consider them
being the "good guys" under he bad ones : You actually get a choice.

Most of them just put a sticky top or bottom "banner" up which bluntly
states that "by using our website you agree to whatever we want" - which is
ofcourse illegal (no information about how your info is used, no choice,
yadayadayada).

As such neither means anything in a legal sense. But as the gouverments of
the different European countries (including mine) seem to love grandstanding
by creating laws - but than refuse to uphold them those websites can stil
say and do whatever they please.

At some point I've just added some GM scripting to automatically remove all
kinds of sticky stuff (removing those and other "you must see this all the
time!" crap) - just so I could enjoy seeing the whole window again.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser.