Axel 🚴😷🐧🐪⌨ | #WeAreNatenomFeb 4, 2025

#UserAgent based banning of #textmode browsers is sooooo lame.

$ lynx -useragent=🖕 https://[…]

#Lynx #TUI #Browser #TextModeBrowser #Unicode #UTF8 #Emoji

Show threadTomášFeb 4, 2025

@xtaran I'm gonna need an example of a website that does it. Because I've never encountered it and I use links2 daily.

#links2gang

Show threadTim ChaseFeb 4, 2025

@prahou @xtaran

I regularly hit CloudFlare-fronted services that refuse to return (even static) pages because I'm browsing from lynx(1). Really irksome. And yes, changing the UA-string to something Chrome-ish/Firefoxish merrily bypasses the braindead check.

Show threadティージェーグレェFeb 4, 2025
(curse words) g.f.d. CloudFlare.

There are SO MANY OTHER CDNs! I wish people/orgs would stop using the terrible ones.

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Show threadTomáš
@teajaygrey @gumnos @xtaran some of my favorite #links2gang experiences
Feb 4, 2025 at 3:15pmWeb
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Feb 4, 2025
@prahou @teajaygrey @gumnos @xtaran Huh, I'm glad I never got that duckduckgo captcha.
Show threadTomášFeb 4, 2025

@lanodan I may have been somewhat instrumental in getting them to remove it, because after I had that happen to me several times, I got a bit angry. And then one day it stopped happening.

@xtaran @gumnos @teajaygrey

Show threadTim ChaseFeb 4, 2025

@prahou
Now if only ClownFlare could be convinced that lynx is a perfectly cromulent browser… ☹

@lanodan @xtaran @teajaygrey