Re: [Lynx-dev] Suggestion for send user-agent header question

[Karen Lewellen]

Actually, I can almost document this.
When discussing the Lynx issue with google directly, a staff member 
provided me with a recent article where  google stated that   most people 
wanting to  not use JavaScript, or turn it off in browsers are bots.
However Google is also using that thinking to block JavaScript browsers 
that are open source.
Agreed on raising the Lynx user profile though.


On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Mouse wrote:

> > Why pick on [lynx users]?  Did a lynx eat their pet dog when they
> > were children?
>
> I have seen it said - with what level of truth I know not - that there
> is misbehaved scraper malware out there that pretends to be lynx.  If
> this is true, then I suspect that a connection claiming to be lynx is
> statistically more likely to be malware than a real user. :-(
>
> Obviously, the fix is to get more people using lynx! :-)
>
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