maybe this is a knee-jerk reaction but I don't see any good reason for this. At it's core Google's job is to take an input and list outputs. The marketshare of people using lynx is small enough that whatever advertising or ai extras they want to squeeze in won't be meaningfully impacted by not working on lynx.

Edit: corrected spelling error

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pachouli-please a day ago | parent | next [-]

Google's job is to sell ads, not provide accessibility to text-only browsers.

(for the record I grow to dislike g more every day, and also this move)

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codedokode a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Internet marketers can misuse this to send lot of automated requests instead of paying for API access.

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bdhcuidbebe a day ago | parent [-]

Lol, what?

Anyone can spoof UA…

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codedokode a day ago | parent [-]

Standard Google page can use JS and WASM to fingerprint device and detect bots. No-JS page cannot detect bots so it makes sense to shut it down to prevent using it for bot detection bypass.

	▲	bdhcuidbebe 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is besides the point. I can spoof UA today with lynx, curl or what ever that isnt executing js. See topic.