Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

1recommend
1warn against
Dec 10, 2025first mention
Aug 31, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used foroffline html reader, daily text browsingtext-mode article readingtext-mode page dumptext-only browsing past paywallsreading paywalled pages without jstext-only article dump

Why people recommend it

“One of the many reasons I prefer links (no graphics)”

daily text-only browser user for over three decadesswitched from lynxon “P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names”

“links -dump \ https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA296NRC”

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Caveats and dissent

“way better than the crusty old lynx and links on sites that need JS”

Often compared with

Who recommends it in their own words

All comments 7

“One of the many reasons I prefer links (no graphics)”

daily text-only browser user for over three decadesswitched from lynxon “P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names”

“links -dump \ https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA296NRC”

“links -source $(tmux capture -t0 -p --|tail -1)”

“way better than the crusty old lynx and links on sites that need JS”

Threads where it came up

Data: links.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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