If you actually try access bbc.co.uk using Lynx, you'll see it's just not a great experience. Most modern websites are not made with text-based browsers in mind at all, and the HTML (and other stuff) they are made of does not lend itself to easy or intuitive display in the terminal.
This seems more akin to an RSS reader than a general web browser.
My own government luckily even offers to reach out in your stead if a company doesn't respond to your disclosure, so pen testing random websites seems implicitly allowed, but such a vertict is still scary to read for such an innocuous probe.
If you actually try access bbc.co.uk using Lynx, you'll see it's just not a great experience. Most modern websites are not made with text-based browsers in mind at all, and the HTML (and other stuff) they are made of does not lend itself to easy or intuitive display in the terminal.
This seems more akin to an RSS reader than a general web browser.
You don't want to get put on trial for computer misuse, do you? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2005/oct/07/manf...
https://boingboing.net/2005/10/06/guy-who-was-busted-f.html/... was the best link I could find for that story
My own government luckily even offers to reach out in your stead if a company doesn't respond to your disclosure, so pen testing random websites seems implicitly allowed, but such a vertict is still scary to read for such an innocuous probe.