Re: Google does not work?

Mouse <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:51:52 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Please donâ??t use a fake UA for *all* webbrowsing.

> Why?

Fair question.  I'd like to know too.

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

Certainly.  But that is extremely unlikely to happen; even every user
of the two spellings of lynx/links, put together, are a _tiny_ group
compared to any one of IE (or whatever they're calling it this week),
Chrome, or Firefox, to name just three.

If you can get the big browsers to agree, yes, that would be effective.
Otherwise, it's a pretty but utterly unrealistic would-be-nice-if.

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