Get a Text Browser for Window 7, 10 Working

Update 2020:  Get https://metadataconsulting.blogspot.com/2020/04/How-to-get-a-Text-Browser-for-Windows-7-10-Surf-the-web-in-text-only-no-ads.html

Goal: Surf the web with no ads. 
Solution: Get a working Text Browser for Windows; 

• Emacs which is well supported for all platforms comes with a web browser ! 
• tried Lynx browser but could not get it to work. 

Side Benefit: Easter egg - get around paywalled sites

The Emacs Web Browser (Eww) is a very basic and fast text/image browser. Flash and Javascript are not supported which gets rid of ads. Emacs Web Browser original instructions here, warning very sparse.

Emacs Web Browser surfing http://www.google.ca/

Source:

Get latest version GNU EMACS 26.0.90 for Windows

http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/

How to get EMACS Web Browser to work

1. Unzip emacs-26.0.90-x86_64-with-deps.zip - Depends library
2. Unzip emacs-26.0.90-x86_64.zip - Compiled Emacs editor with browser
3. Copy Compiled sub-directories to Depends sub-directories;
       bin -> bin
       lib -> lib
       libexe -> libexe
       share -> share - you can say NO to copy overwriting info and man directories.
4. Run EMACS by clicking runemacs.exe in Depends bin directory
5. In EMACS, choose Tools -> Browse the Web -> Enter your URL or Keywords: 
6. Voila! it works!

Trivia

1. EWW, the Emacs Web Wowser, is a web browser package for Emacs.
2. Download is huge at 716Mb combined, but running takes a scant 45 Mb of RAM.
3. If you just use emacs-26.0.90-x86_64.zip it will complain about not loading LIBXML2.dll.
4. You can download that here http://xmlsoft.org/sources/win32/, but then complains about gnutls not being installed, then we are into dependency hell. Hours later....