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Apple takes huge amounts of cash in exchange for making a search engine their default and they go out of their way to stop users from removing search engines or
by autoexec 1y ago
Apple takes huge amounts of cash in exchange for making a search engine their default and they go out of their way to stop users from removing search engines or adding their own. Those apple sanctioned search engines are effectively paid ads, and apple users end up getting sold to those other ad companies with no option to use anyone else as their default.
The last good browser is Lynx
- cout 1y agoWhy lynx and not w3m or links?
- autoexec 1y agoAre those still active? Elinks is I think. I'll have to grab the latest version of w3m
- flushedpancake 1y agow3m hasn't been updated since 2023, and the author hasn't even had any activity on GitHub since July of that year, either, it seems - which given he's had at least 3 contributions a year since 2010 and then just suddenly dropped off the face of the earth, is pretty concerning to say the least.
- rkta 1y agoThere is an maintained (by me) fork at https://w3m-pager.org https://w3m-pager.org
- flushedpancake 1y agoSeaMonkey would be good if it weren't for modern websites being well, modern websites, and both Mozilla, with their decision to cut SeaMonkey off most of their infrastructure... and later on PaleMoon with its endless barrage of drama and pandering-but-actually-not to the 'uwu windows xp!!11!1! le fruitger aro y2k' crowd... pretty much screwing them over into irrelevance.