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Comment by Zelphyr | Hacker News Reader

I'm getting tired of Google dictating how the web should work. That's the job of standards bodies.

Google is increasingly taking the place of overbearing overlord that Microsoft embodied in the 90's and early 2000's.

Google is dictating how signing into their account system on their properties works, not login forms for _every single site_.

You're right. My comment is out of place in this particular instance. But there are plenty of other examples where Google does have too much power and influence.

Google's policies get exported.

For a long time it was OK to drop email that came from a server without rDNS. Then gmail started allowing such emails, and then legit sites started sending email from servers without rDNS.

In this case the export mechanism is Captcha v3.

So you're saying you're getting tired of everyone else copying Google's behavior?

Google is quickly becoming the login form for every website. And even if the website has its own login it will always have recaptca

I wouldn't blame Google for this phenomenon, though. They provided a solution, others were quick to jump to and use said solution. Might be better to complain to the sites following the herd then?

Is there a standard relating to whether JavaScript should be optional?

According to the WHATWG:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html

"Authors are encouraged to use declarative alternatives to scripting where possible, as declarative mechanisms are often more maintainable, and many users disable scripting."

"Authors are also encouraged to make their applications degrade gracefully in the absence of scripting support."

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