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A text web browser that actually lets you log in to websites.
You mean a web browser in a terminal?
or a TTY. One that doesn't need X or Wayland.
There used to be lynx. Oh look, it's still being maintained. Not sure how well it works though, might have to try it out:
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/
I tried lynx, links, links2, elinks and w3m. None of them let me log into any website.
I also tried browsh and carbonyl which theoretically support everything Firefox and Chromium can do, respectively.
But they don't receive signals from gpm and don't offer keyboard navigation so I can't click on any links in a TTY.
Something like Browsh? It still uses firefox underneath the hood though
I tried that. Websites are completely unreadable in a TTY, because it tries to render an image using ASCII.
And when I run it in Wayland, it's just a lower resolution Firefox frontend.