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You wonder… Just google it. https://search.sethforprivacy.com/ How do kids today even survive online?
Just google it. You might want to take a look at the context.
And you need to calibrate your humor ;-)
Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
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Re: Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
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Lol, what? Anyone can spoof UA…
Standard Google page can use JS and WASM to fingerprint device and detect bots. No-JS page cannot detect bots so it makes sense to shut it down to prevent using it for bot detection bypass.
That is besides the point.
I can spoof UA today with lynx, curl or what ever that isnt executing js.
See topic.
Re: Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
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What's the advantage of using lynx as opposed to Chrome/Safari and using the read aloud features?
Ask someone who is visually impaired. I know that they historically use browsers that do not support JavaScript. I also am acquainted with one developer who uses software for reading his terminal outloud, although I never asked the specifics of what he uses for web browsing or IRC for that matter. I do know that he loves the iPhone. That said, I just found this post by a blind person who uses Lynx and complained abou…
That may have been true decades ago but I think this is pretty marginal these days. All the Blind people I have talked to use mainstream browsers. GUI browsers actually provide more metadata to screen readers than something like Lynx can, and they actually work with websites people need to access.
Re: Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
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Safari offers https://www.apple.com/accessibility/ features, so I'm pretty sure someone with visual disability can access google no issues.
Seriously? Apple only? But Linux! And *BSD! Or some Illumos. Or in general just some effin textmode terminal, running whatever is able to run Lynx/Links/Elinks(2?).
On Linux you use Orca with your browser of choice. On Windows you use JAWS or NVDA with your browser of choice. All major browsers support screen readers.
Re: Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
#35Related discussion earlier this year: Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42747092
When resources are an issue, this does matter.
I use to store previous Lynx/ Links search results in history lists,
to allow browsing within local files later. Creating such lists with
Firefox is a mess. (This browser tends to block my Thinpad for hours.)
Really sad. Google was a key to the internet.
Torsten
Re: Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
#36I wonder to what extent visually disabled internet users are affected by this, since I can imagine at least some of them using lynx with an on-screen reader for a terminal emulator.
Not to any meaningful degree. Lynx (or other terminal-based browsers) would be an extraordinarily poor choice of browser for a non-sighted user, as it lays text out visually in the terminal (e.g. using color and indentation to distinguish between types of text) and does not provide accessibility cues. Those users are much better served by standard GUI web browsers.
Re: Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
#37The most efficient way to search is to read the text. Waiting for images to download and then admire them cannot improve that. It looks like Google has lost relevance and is telling us, again.
> The most efficient way to search is to read the text.
"Maybe for you"
> Waiting for images to download and then admire them cannot improve that.
"It does improve the way we track you"
> It looks like Google has lost relevance and is telling us, again.
They just got patted on the back by regulators in US so they don't give a fsck.
Re: Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
#38I 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 yo…
My impression is that support for less common browsers and other unusual uses of google products has survived due to pet interest by individual googlers and not any sort of widespread policy.
Re: Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
#39I 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 yo…
My impression is that support for less common browsers and other unusual uses of google products has survived due to pet interest by individual googlers and not any sort of widespread policy.
A lot of those individual googlers are longtimers who are now leaving after 15, 20 years. Google has been offering voluntary exit packages this year and I suspect the kind of people who would value Google.com working in Lynx are also the type who have made plenty of money and are disillusioned by what the company has become.
Re: Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
#40I noticed this the other day as I (previously) used an old Firefox UA to get a more simple, streamlined legacy interface. I don't know why they did this.