Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser

Post by xacky » Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 12:34 PM UTC

Post by eimrine » Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 2:48 PM UTC

salted-fry wrote: post #11

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 yo…

Post by Elfener » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 8:19 AM UTC

eimrine wrote: post #43

salted-fry wrote: post #11

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 yo…

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 mo…