On 2025-10-06 Riku Virtanen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to use Google search and changed user agent to
> Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) | AppleWebKit/536.26 
> (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e | Safari/8536.25
>
> Google then opened its search box.
> I typed a word I wanted to search and went ahead.
> Then Google immediately said the browser is not supported.
> Seemly Google has changed something after 10th of September.

I just use "Lynx" as my user-agent string and everything works for me with
Google. I have the following settings in my ~/.lynx/lynx.cfg

   ENABLE_LYNXRC:useragent:on
   ENABLE_LYNXRC:send_useragent:on
   
and then in my ~/.lynxrc

   send_useragent=on

HTH, Morten


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