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Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser

102 points zhenyi | 1 comments | 10 Sep 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Accessing google.com in Lynx now shows:

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samtheDamned ◴[10 Sep 25 21:55 UTC] No.45204486[source]▶
maybe this is a knee-jerk reaction but I don't see any good reason for this. At it's core Google's job is to take an input and list outputs. The marketshare of people using lynx is small enough that whatever advertising or ai extras they want to squeeze in won't be meaningfully impacted by not working on lynx.

Edit: corrected spelling error

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1. pachouli-please ◴[10 Sep 25 22:37 UTC] No.45205040[source]▶
Google's job is to sell ads, not provide accessibility to text-only browsers.

(for the record I grow to dislike g more every day, and also this move)