"If you don't perceive using the Internet in the 2020s to be a constant fight, you have absolutely no online privacy whatsoever."
Lynx browser, browsing the post Cyber Freedom: No Gain Without Pain, from my Neocities site Backlit.
It might look scarily primitive at first glance, but Lynx browser - a product as old as the World Wide Web itself - could not be more of a friend. And neither could it be more relevant amid the surveillance dystopia of the 2020s. If you find it hard to keep up with the latest content-blocking customisations... If your brain is fried with endless reports of new tracking technologies... If you're sick of seeing a page of static text hang your system because some pillock of a front-end dev decided to hit your RAM with a one gigabyte JavaScript object... Well, Lynx is here to take the confusion out of dodging Big/Stupid Tech.
In fact, it's been here for thirty years, but the forgotten 1992 browser is making a steady comeback as privacy advocates jump off the Big Tech browser roundabout altogether. Maintained for current encryption compatibility, Lynx offers a rare, genuine escape from the stranglehold of GAFAM.
"This is an altogether different league of privacy from your Braves and Vivalidis."
THE MAIN ADVANTAGES OF LYNX
Its development is fully independent, and thus free from Big Tech's ever-worsening surveillance drive. It does not harbour any of the tale-telling background services found in nearly all modern browsers, and it can be used in small, transparent, zero-surveillance operating systems, on pre-surveillance-age hardware - which makes you tremendously difficult to track.
It's extremely fast.
It doesn't need a blocker for third-party scripting, service workers, fingerprinting tools, CDNs, tracker-pixels or analytics code, because the browser's technology simply doesn't recognise these page components as content, and therefore doesn't attempt to process them. You can say goodbye to uBlock Origin, which is now virtually useless with default settings anyway.
RAM use is negligible at all times, so you can deploy Lynx on virtually any PC - going back to the 1980s. And there are ways to install it into almost any operating system.
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