Comment by samtheDamned

Comment by samtheDamned 2 days ago

5 replies

maybe this is a knee-jerk reaction but I don't see any good reason for this. At it's core Google's job is to take an input and list outputs. The marketshare of people using lynx is small enough that whatever advertising or ai extras they want to squeeze in won't be meaningfully impacted by not working on lynx.

Edit: corrected spelling error

pachouli-please 2 days ago

Google's job is to sell ads, not provide accessibility to text-only browsers.

(for the record I grow to dislike g more every day, and also this move)

codedokode 2 days ago

Internet marketers can misuse this to send lot of automated requests instead of paying for API access.

  • bdhcuidbebe 2 days ago

    Lol, what?

    Anyone can spoof UA…

    • codedokode 2 days ago

      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.

      • bdhcuidbebe 2 days ago

        That is besides the point.

        I can spoof UA today with lynx, curl or what ever that isnt executing js.

        See topic.