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Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser

102 points zhenyi | 2 comments | 10 Sep 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.45s | source

Accessing google.com in Lynx now shows:

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1. RAM-bunctious ◴[11 Sep 25 04:45 UTC] No.45207883[source]▶
I don't feel it's particularly controversial to think that Javascript shouldn't be a requirement to use the internet. This is one step towards making that the case.
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2. rgreekguy ◴[11 Sep 25 05:26 UTC] No.45208104[source]▶
From a normal browser (don't ask me what I mean by that), with its normal/default user agent, Google search does not work without Javascript. I think at all, any more, but at some point I had got rate limited of sorts, after using the search without Javascript for a little, I got a prompt to enable it.