On 11/02/2026 04:24, Karen Lewellen wrote:
For the record David, this change from Google has zero to do with sight safety.
I didn't introduce site safety in the context of Google's search engine. The only reason I mentioned Google is that its AI gave me an easy way of getting to relevant information in a compact form, to show what the OP should have been able to find with a bit of research effort.
The https everywhere initiative doesn't discriminate against Lynx, but rather against old systems. Once you make security important, you have to continually update software as vulnerabilities are discovered, and that means you can't use 18 year old software and expect it to be secure.
Google wasn't listed as a site that was causing an issue, and the failure reported was one that would mean that the web site would not have been able to identify the browser, as that would require it to have seen the plain text.
