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Google search page no longer works on Dreamcast's web browser (retrolemmy.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/dreamcast@lemmy.world
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Sad news guys. After over 25 years of support, Google has finally discontinued support for Dreamcast web browsers. ☹️

https://xcancel.com/dclivenet/status/2000321889970078120

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[–] 69 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I hate this type of unsupported page shit. Give me a banner saying it's unsupported and let the browser still try. Most of the time it will still work.

Artificially blocking usage entirely is a bad user experience.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Call me crazy but I think that computers volunteer way too much fuggin information when connecting to websites. User agents as we know them shouldn't exist, the website should have no DAMN clue what kind of device I'm using.

    I've always been creeped out by stuff like that old form signature that would show what your IP is and stuff, i always hated how the facepunch forum would expose your OS for no real reason and you cant choose not to display it.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    User agents are a mess that is half blatant lies on a good day. Blame early browsers (*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*) for being outdated or not standards compliant, so websites started serving different code based on reported user agent, leading browsers to start adding random crap to their user string to fool sites into giving them the right code so they'd work properly.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    old form signature that would show what your IP is and stuff

    Wait, where was this? I'm drawing a blank.

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    • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Graceful_degradation

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    [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Dreamcast was my first time going online at home back in the day.

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    [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The only AI I want integrated into a browser is Seaman...

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Neat. I had an aunt that used WebTV.

    Personally I never got to experience the internet from a 480i CRT myself, because my family always had a PC growing up. Closest I ever got was connecting my PSP to wifi back in the day. But then I got a smartphone shortly after and the rest is history.

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    • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Duckduckgo.com non-JS?

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    [–] -2 points 10 months ago

    And nothing of value was lost.

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