Re: foolin the goog

On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 02:11:44PM -0500, Brian Tew wrote:
> Hello,
> Google recently stopped accepting my lynx searches.  Any ideas on a useragent string that might make it accept them again?
> Using an old version of ubuntu.  thanks.
> 
> I am deafblind and use braille. I have been using my homemade googler for many years, and it is really useful to me.
> It uses the -dump switch to a sed script that deletes some junk and makes it much easier to read in braille.

Hi Brian,

Personally i would advocate for de-googling your setup if possible.

For example, pointing lynx at DDG:

lynx https://lite.duckduckgo.com/

Good luck,
-Ben