Text bases browser

Sure does..

My own system includes lynx and w3m from the default Ubuntu repositories.

Only yesterday I came to a news article I wanted to read; but it was behind a paywall; thus my standard reaction is to copy the URL to clipboard; switch to terminal and read it using either of those two [text] browsers (a huge portion of paywalls are done via scripts that lynx won't run, so whilst I don't get the pictures; I get to read the text which is really what I want anyway)

I prefer using lynx (or w3m) for specific sites anyway; as I get the text without their flashing moving graphics/pics (w3m has some graphics options; being a much newer browser than lynx which has been around since 1992)

Both w3m and lynx have different advantages; so which I'll use will depend on what I want to do.

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