Dear webdevs:

Please stop banning Lynx and Links from your websites as bots.

They are Web browsers, not bots.

Sincerely,

A webdev, programmer, & shellscript writer who needs to look stuff up online on the

P.S.

I shouldn't have to extend my laptop's boot time with a GUI & extend my wait time getting answers with a bloated Web browser. Trust me, not even SSD & NVMe drives make either of those tasks as fast as not having them installed at all.

@arielmt They're actually treated that way? Good grief. =:P

(And even with a full-blown browser, it's disappointing how much of the current web breaks with farging JS and/or cookies turned off. Usually silently, too, rather than actually being tested before use)

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@porsupah By some sites, yeah. So far, dev.to is the most prominent one to ban Lynx that way.

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