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

[David Woolley]

On 13/08/2019 17:08, 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.:-(

More likely is that Lynx is being used to do the scraping.

However it doesn't have to be what is normally understood as malware. 
Anything that makes advertising ineffective, e.g. downloading for 
offline searching, re-publishing, or just generally using a 
non-graphical browser will be a commercial problem for most web sites. 
In particularly people seem to mention news sites.  The news is there to 
attract people to advertising.