Back in 2016, The Economist used to block access from lynx. You'd get an error like this (unless you spoofed the user agent to be something other than lynx):

Error 403 You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake.

You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake.

  Guru Meditation:

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