I have similar emotions about google.com no longer working in w3m and other no-JS browsers, something that happened this year seemingly to very little fanfare, or whatever the antonym to fanfare is.
(Oh! I wonder if Servo will bring about a new, JS enabled, TUI browser?)
This is something I want to make possible! There was an early experiment in https://github.com/mcclure/cuervo/ which helped identify some ways that our embedding APIs would need to change to support that use case.
yeah very sad, had a tmux shortcut for quickly "googling" things.. However, https://www.startpage.com/ does not complain and supposedly sports the same search index..
For modern sites and if your terminal toolchain does not support sixel, https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl is a neat hack that gives you a text-rendered blink engine, i.e. supporting all the same sites as those pesky GUI browsers. With sixel/kitty graphics, there was another option which slipped my mind.. [edit: maybe chawan as in sibling comment, but that also is "not supported" by google with the default user agent.]
(Oh! I wonder if Servo will bring about a new, JS enabled, TUI browser?)