Re: Google does not work?

On Sat, 13 Sep 2025, Mouse wrote:
>> [Thorsten wrote:]
>>> Please don't use a fake UA for *all* webbrowsing.
>
> [yeti wrote:]
>> Why?
>
> Fair question.  I'd like to know too.
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As Thorsten mentioned in his reply, it may cause problems with other
web pages. For example, at

  https://duckduckgo.com/

the document I am served (using lynx) depends on my user agent string.

If my user agent string is accurate

  Lynx/2.9.0dev.6 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 GNUTLS/3.7.1

then I am automatically redirected to this page

  https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/

which is provides a very simple, usable form for entering search terms.

But if I lie, and set this user agent string

  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36

then I receive a document that is much less functional. It has no text
input field.

Furthermore, although it *does* include a link to a page that is
functional

  https://html.duckduckgo.com/html

that link is broken, because its url is erroneously enclosed in double
quotes

  "https://html.duckduckgo.com/html"