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Dillo browser

is now banning user agent via a JS wall. Other user agents still work for now (http_user_agent option in dillorc).

See: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

@dillo that's good timing tho, since we should probably be moving on to other search engines.

@capeta yep.

Extremely good timing indeed:

% stat dev/search-engine | grep Birth
Birth: 2025-01-14 22:24:00.369739035 +0100

@niutech @dillo frog find is specifically great since it works on anything that can run a browser (or do http calls)

@dillo

they fear dillo to steal their marketshare :)

@dillo Petty assholes at Google. Do they feel threatened by Dillo?

@1eye I would say probably a side-effect of AI/LLM crawling Google searches non-stop.

@dillo AI bots posing as Dillo would be pretty hilarious!

@dillo @1eye a big chunk of the www is now doing similar things for the same reason, this has really destroyed my experience because they are suspicious of anything that is not Chrome with a trillion cookies, otherwise have fun with the captchas. I hate it so much...

@trobador @1eye yep, same with CloudFlare and Akamai.

@dillo
I thought Google enforced JS a long time ago, so this didn't surprise me.
Good that I don't google anything, I always use DDG or other search engines.

@julesbl @dillo I am on metager, works also pretty well with Dillo!

Personally I am not bothered, because I have been chopping
out JS from my own computing.
So it's like a mutual breakup.

I mean I lament the loss of decent search, but DDG is pretty
good, and I kinda like where I have been taken by searching
for things in a more curated way.

Like I rely on myself more and save more links, more RSS, more
asking real people questions.

It's been nice degrowthing my own computing.

@dillo So many people getting fired and the ones that keep their job are prioritizing this shit?

@dillo It's official: techcrunch.com/2025/01/17/goog

However, you can still access Google Search without JS using this user agent string: "Lynx/2.8.6rel.5 libwww-FM/2.14"