Cybersecurity: You need JavaScript turned on to Sign in to Google

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31st October, 2019 was the last day of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 🔐. Google celebrated this occasion with security improvements across our account journey.

Google says, “We’re constantly protecting your information from attackers’ tricks, and with these new protections and tools, we hope you can spend your Halloween worrying about zombies, witches, and your candy loot — not the security of your account.”

Google protecting you before signing in

Everyone tries their best to keep their credentials (username and password) safe, but sometimes bad actors may still get them through phishing or other tricks. Google plans to protect users with safeguards that kick-in before you are signed into your account.

When username and password are entered on Google’s sign-in page, it’ll run a risk assessment and only allow the sign-in if nothing looks suspicious. This risk assessment requires JavaScript enabled on the Google sign-in page.

According to Google, about 99.9% people has got JavaScript enabled in their browser. A tiny minority of our users (0.1%) choose to keep it off. The main reason behind turning off Javascript in the browser is saving Bandwidth. But in this modern age of internet, you an’t just feel the the…