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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