Texttop VS Links

> If you are using a JS based browser, you don't deserve security in first place. In some cases, that is true, but not all, and I suggest not even most. In many cases, I think people are just as liable for being unwilling to use Whonix. > If I had time I could set up a tutorial not to use SSH as a proxy, but as a client to a remote VPS/tilde to use the offpunk client there to browse web/gemini and gopher sites... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

I use EWW as a browser in emacs but sometimes I need a browser that is more GUI oriented. I stumbled on two such browsers that can be used in a terminal: Carbonyl and Browsh. Source: about 1 year ago

As far as I know, browsh is one of the very few CLI browsers (if not the only one) that can deal with the modern JavaScript riddled web, and it's actually a text-based fronted for Firefox. So in that regard you're set... Source: over 1 year ago

u/livejamie Great question! I have tried running ansi art in Unix terminals in past, the problem is not with art itself but the format and assumptions it makes... Yes its possible, but might require a translator to have escape sequences and use unicode characters. Check the ANSI browser browsh's example gif on their GitHub page, they are able to play YouTube video in terminal, so what you intend should be... Source: over 1 year ago

There's also browsh which is the same idea, but is access via ssh on a terminal and uses Firefox as the backend. Source: over 1 year ago

I'm assuming author is aware of (E)Links? http://links.twibright.com At least Links seems to have a DOS version. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

Http://links.twibright.com is the website, but the easiest way to try it is probably to search your preferred package manager. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

The Couriers paywall is soft and pathetic, you can read their stories with a text based browser that doesn't include javascript, e.g. http://links.twibright.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

Like Links[1] then? Really. I want Epiphany and Firefox to allow me turn off JavaScript like I can allow/disallow {Audio, Video, Webcam, Location, Notifications...}. The single wrong decision was following Google into that JS-Show. JS has it rationals, I'm using it as programmer sometimes. But JS was consider harmful for the reasons! Google intention was using JS for it's so called... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

May not be quite what you're looking for but Links2 has a text-only mode: http://links.twibright.com/. Source: over 1 year ago