Yaaay, text-only propaganda. Seriously, CNN is crap, this only helps the web scrapers.
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#32The absolute worst thing about cnn.com is the auto-playing videos. I've been in quiet places and clicked a CNN news link only to have a video start blasting on the speakers. It's not only annoying but a huge waste of mobile bandwidth. Now I just need an extension that rewrites all CNN urls to this site.
My computer's speakers are not plugged in. Problem solved.
Some people use laptops.
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#33Also, NPR has had a text only site for ages
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#35An important feature is that the article pages don't have an article title. Annoying if you like to open a set of pages from the main page to read as an initial action prior to reading. Current pages at lite.cnn.io don't seem to have extra JavaScript.
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#36The BBC News site used to have a wonderful text-only version which disappeared a long time ago. I still miss it. It even worked really well in lynx.
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#37...and the World Wide Web goes full circle and mimics the service it replaced. #gopher2017
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#38Text-only fake news, hooray!
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#39This + reader mode in Safari is heaven.
If any other news org is tuning in, please do this!
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#40My laptop can run computationally-intensive physics simulations and play streaming hi-def video with no problem, but if I click a link to a mainstream news article it just about keels over and dies. How did our grandparents ever manage to load the news on an underpowered machine called "paper"?
It works like a gas; the performance-sapping computations on the articles expand until they fill up all available human latency tolerance.
Haha this tickles me. If you arent already using reddit you should be.