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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow
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Lynx gang, assemble
Lynx? Hah, I must chortle in your general direction.
Elinks is the powerful, featureful and versatile, yet light, CLI browser of today. If you haven't tried it, or if it's been years since you've tried it, then I can only recommend taking it for a spin.
It even has a minimal, partial ECMAScript/JavaScipt implementation that's optionally available, meaning that it can browse and navigate the modern web to a much greater degree than other CLI browsers, but of course with the trade-off that you're now executing some amount of JavaScript code again, which is probably what you're trying to escape in the first place when you're firing up a CLI browser instead of a conventional browser.
Wow, it looks pretty nice. i'll make sure to give it a try... thanks
It's perfect for surfing Wikipedia.
For real though. I had the thought earlier today of how I could reduce my internet usage to text only and try and skip all the bullshit. Might be tough but I'm not seeing another way. At least I'd still be able to access things like Wikipedia.
Between AI killing the idea of "believe what you can see" and ads/tracking being forced on every part of the internet, the end is very, very near.
And it should upset everyone, because the internet was not designed for this. We (the people) ultimately paid to develop what is being taken over by corpos for profit.
Links2 is not as funny to use, but it is easier to understand. It supports a graphical interface and images. I use it from time to time and it's nice when you know what you are looking for...
I used them cause my PC had 384 MB of RAM in 2012. It was ok for everything but surfing the web and lynx solved the issue.
If you are looking for something for the phone, i once used Vivaldi.
384 ??! what do you do with all these spare MBs ??
3 128 MB sticks... terrible times...
In that time i had to experiment with different GUIs to reduce RAM usage. Xfce4 and i3 saved my day honestly.
For gaming i had to go back for the roots, dosbox was the savior of the day: Alone in the dark, dune 2000 (was it dos?), conquest of the new world and the old XCOM. Also, some old games that probably dont have support anymore that had linux support: ASCIIsector and star commander.
If not corporations' benefit, then whose?
What's Lynx? A quick search gave me a lot of different things
It's CLI based browser that, as i understand, only runs on linux. There are text based alternatives for windows, but not nearly as cool.
No java, no nothing. Just plain text and funny colours everywhere. I used to use it a lot for wikipedia, scholar google and news outlets.
Apart from surfing the web, it proved to be a useful tool for covering serious fuckups in my linux partition.