keep you worthless js out of my cpu cycles; dont need to read o
I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
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Re: I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
#102I feel like many of the text-mode browsers have failed to keep up with changing web standards. We were all mad when IE was holding back the Internet, and I'm not sure we should give lynx and w3m a pass because they're geek tools. (Accessibility is an important concern, but web browsers running under a GUI system support screen readers.) https://www.brow.sh/ is a console-based browser that claims to support modern sta…
I'll be the first (EDIT: third) of six. > If all that stuff works for everyone, why did we invent new stuff? Just because? Or perhaps it wasn't really as amazing as well all remember. To better track people and push ads. It's really mostly just it. Modern web has very little to do with providing value to the end-user; any utility that's provided is mostly a side effect, and/or a vector to lure people into situations…
Amen; fourth here... don't need js cycles for html query
Re: I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
#103Hey! We will be happy to give you an infinite access to our search API: https://serpapi.com
It will be slower than regular Google but at least you are not going to be blocked.
Edit: Create an account without credit card details, send an email to julien _at_ serpapi.com with it, and I’ll make sure you have an active account.
Re: I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
#104w3m works fine for me. Any reason people prefer lynx over w3m or eww?
I'm surprised elinks doesn't get more mention whenever text browsers comes up and I wonder why. I prefer it over the others.
Re: I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then you have to make a choice - do you want to support pushing down the lowest common denominator? Or will you be a person of integrity, and take the most technically simple solutions to build a more powerful and fast tool? Greed and morality can't mix. I personally support morals.
How can what the parent did be considered immoral? It's not like they pushed tracking and ads down their customers throats, they just made the interface easier for people to use.
Parent's idea, as far as I can tell, not that I lean any which way, is that if you create a deficient product because you're financially incentivized, that's immoral.
Re: I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
#106Google search no longer working with text readers should be an ADA Violation. https://www.ada.gov/complaint/
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#107w3m works fine for me. Any reason people prefer lynx over w3m or eww?
What? w3m is resulting in the same thing for me. No actual links to what pops up. Sometimes links to some videos.
Re: I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
#108The redesigned version of Google Search that is being A/B tested no longer shows links. Despite being a developer, I'm anxious to click search results, especially because when results are filtered to be from the last day or week, they are full of phishing sites and pages with scraped content that immediately redirect to malware. This change can't possibly be beneficial to users. It makes people even more ignorant abo…
The URL is right there, above the search result title. Just the / has been replaced by a > and it's been made a more human readable. To the average person it's even more prominent now.
I'm looking forward to this change. It will incentivise websites to make their URL paths more human readable because now their
example.com > cgi > html > static > actually_human_readble_part.html
noise is seen by everyone not just weirdos that look at the URL bar like me.
Re: I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
#109I feel like many of the text-mode browsers have failed to keep up with changing web standards. We were all mad when IE was holding back the Internet, and I'm not sure we should give lynx and w3m a pass because they're geek tools. (Accessibility is an important concern, but web browsers running under a GUI system support screen readers.) https://www.brow.sh/ is a console-based browser that claims to support modern sta…
> I am now prepared for 6 comments replying to me saying that anything that can be implemented with HTML from 1999 should be, and a list of search results can be.
They would be correct replies!
In addition there is this concept called "graceful degradation", where if the browser has more advanced features, you support them, otherwise you work anyway. It's not like supporting Lynx means you can't have a map in the search results when using Chrome. Certainly not for a company with the resources of Google.
Also they should probably send something like a Lynx-version of Google down to people with a poor internet connection.
Re: I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then you have to make a choice - do you want to support pushing down the lowest common denominator? Or will you be a person of integrity, and take the most technically simple solutions to build a more powerful and fast tool? Greed and morality can't mix. I personally support morals.
> Greed and morality can't mix. I personally support morals. Hold up, your position is that users that prefer something 'easy to use' as opposed to something 'powerful' are immoral ? What am I missing here?
I thought the parent was referring to the developers/business choice as being immoral, not the customers.
If I choose to offer predatory loans which I would never accept for my friends or family to a community that is not financially savvy, and someone calls me out on it, it doesn't fly to say "hey, what do you have against these people taking advantage of my easy to use service?".