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Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser

102 points zhenyi | 2 comments | 10 Sep 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.871s | source

Accessing google.com in Lynx now shows:

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salted-fry ◴[10 Sep 25 22:00 UTC] No.45204566[source]▶
I just tested changing user agents in Chrome - setting UA to a random string like "fff" gets a search page, but setting it to "Links" or "Lynx" gets "Your browser isn't supported anymore" - which is to say, this doesn't look accidental, but more like these UAs are specifically being blocked.

EDIT: Forging user agent in Links (with links -http.fake-user-agent) gets a usable homepage, but the results page just sends you to a turn-on-your-javascript page.

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1. eimrine ◴[12 Sep 25 14:48 UTC] No.45222741[source]▶
Google loves to search the result with a real URL but since I make any click on that result Google replaces it with some referral link. For example, if I want to open the result not from my connection but from Tor I need to clean each link by hand or even type it from scratch. I am sure this ban was made for poisoning UX for console guys too. What a pity I didn't know I could search from console browser and having more easy life.
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2. Elfener ◴[15 Sep 25 08:19 UTC] No.45247337[source]▶
This extension removes that behaviour: https://github.com/Rob--W/dont-track-me-google