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>> Has anyone else seen this? I have. Not often, but I have. > [...] I would have thought it unusual to be so honest about it. Indeed. > For most web sites, you are the product, and if you are not > compatible with the sorts of adverts that their ad-servers serve, you > are a defective product. Indeed. This bothers me only a little most places, because I don't have much to do with the kind of websites where I'm (putatively) part of the product. Where it really annoys me is things like governmental pages or other non-ad-supported stuff. > The other reason for a conscious decision to block Lynx was its > ability to be used in bulk downloading. Presumably under the impression that there are people capable of realizing lynx can do that but not of realizing that it can be told to change its User-Agent string. And, somehow, that aren't capable of just saving the page source from something like Firefox or Chromium. Bizarre. I do not understand what passes for thinking behind "most web sites". /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
