Google's job is to sell ads, not provide accessibility to text-only browsers.
reply(for the record I grow to dislike g more every day, and also this move)
Internet marketers can misuse this to send lot of automated requests instead of paying for API access.
replyLol, what?
replyAnyone can spoof UA…
Standard Google page can use JS and WASM to fingerprint device and detect bots. No-JS page cannot detect bots so it makes sense to shut it down to prevent using it for bot detection bypass.
replyThat is besides the point.
replyI can spoof UA today with lynx, curl or what ever that isnt executing js.
See topic.