Re: new auth errors at ao3 with lynx.

David Woolley <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:59:47 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 30/11/2025 14:14, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> I’m getting them as well. I think AO3 did something that now
> requires Javascript, as it works in Firefox.

Cloudflare got mentioned.  One of the ways they make their presence 
known to the general public is their bot detection.  I think part of 
that involves getting javascript to do a time consuming calculation. If 
that accidentally got turned on for a site that didn't want the service 
(or the site operator didn't understand how the service was 
implemented), it would almost certainly lock out Lynx.