Classic browsing and duckduckgo

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Fri Mar 12 01:43:59 CST 2021


On 3/11/21 10:47 PM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I more often than not use one of the old style browsers (lynx, dillo
> etc). Using search engines with them was rather uncool (unusable links
> in search results, wanting to load some bs or js, etc). For this
> reason I type my searches using mozilla and very rarely trying this
> with duckduckgo and almost never with goog.
> 
> Today I noticed that duckduckgo redirects my classic browsers to
> lite.duckduckgo.com and I can use the results. Cool!
> 
> Tried with dillo and w3m.

There's a compromise--google with a browser plug-in that removes the
redirection in google results.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-link-fix/

There are other similar plugins.

--Chuck


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