Re: Google does not work?

yeti dixit:

>Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Please don’t use a fake UA for *all* webbrowsing.
>
>Why?

It will break other pages, and it will send even less signals
that lynx is important.

>Maybe if everyone always would use randomly generated UA-strings, that
>source of data mining would dry out?

No. Don’t dream, face reality.

>> Instead, make a special alias for Google, like ggs (google search),
>> which you use for that only then.
>
>You'll soon start to curse a lot when needing to switch browsers or
>aliases and/or just forget it after searching with your ggslynx.

The externals menu exists.

(Me, I just switched to ddg again until this goes away. Wish
Mojeek would actually work and not throw 403s all the time
because they broke their own API again.)

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
  "Using Lynx is like wearing a really good pair of shades: cuts out
   the glare and harmful UV (ultra-vanity), and you feel so-o-o COOL."
                                         -- Henry Nelson, March 1999