Also, NPR has had a text only site for ages http://thin.npr.org
Shame that thin.npr.org does not have HTTPS
Why do you need to encrypt your connection to that site? No sensitive info sent.
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#132I really miss RSS.
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#133When Google first came out and we tried it there were two things we liked about it. The first: Good search results. Yeah everyone knows that right. But young people today might have forgotten the second reason we liked Google search back then: The Second: A clean page with a single logo and search field. It loaded quick. There were no banners everywhere, no bs. HackerNews has that feel. It is clean, information dense…
The Swedish public broadcaster still keeps their Teletext[0] service running. One of the cleanest way to get your news (especially on a TV where load times are zero). You can access it on the web as well https://www.svt.se/svttext/web/pages/100.html
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shame that thin.npr.org does not have HTTPS
Why do you need to encrypt your connection to that site? No sensitive info sent.
Just a few reasons:
* To overcome government censorship and surveillance.
* To stop internet providers from injecting ads and tracking scripts.
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#135The 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.
Disable HTML5 Autoplay https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto...
works for me at the moment. You never know when the blighters will change the format though.
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#136When Google first came out and we tried it there were two things we liked about it. The first: Good search results. Yeah everyone knows that right. But young people today might have forgotten the second reason we liked Google search back then: The Second: A clean page with a single logo and search field. It loaded quick. There were no banners everywhere, no bs. HackerNews has that feel. It is clean, information dense…
Google seems to have forgotten this and now thinks its some kind of design company. Everything with the exception of adwords and analytics it has applied material to is now garbage.
News use to be my default homepage but surprisingly MSN gives me a much better product with more then 4 stories on the page on 32" monitors.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you need to encrypt your connection to that site? No sensitive info sent.
Just a few reasons: * To overcome government censorship and surveillance. * To stop internet providers from injecting ads and tracking scripts.
>To overcome government censorship and surveillance.
But the site isn't being censored? Also https won't stop the government from knowing that you connected to those servers. I agree that we want to avoid censorship and surveillance in general, but it really doesn't seem relevant here.
>To stop internet providers from injecting ads and tracking scripts.
Is your ISP actually doing that to you right now? Or is that just hypothetical?
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shame that thin.npr.org does not have HTTPS
Why do you need to encrypt your connection to that site? No sensitive info sent.
Which politically charged articles you read can very much be sensitive information. When in question, all information is sensitive.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a few reasons: * To overcome government censorship and surveillance. * To stop internet providers from injecting ads and tracking scripts.
>To overcome government censorship and surveillance. But the site isn't being censored? Also https won't stop the government from knowing that you connected to those servers. I agree that we want to avoid censorship and surveillance in general, but it really doesn't seem relevant here. >To stop internet providers from injecting ads and tracking scripts. Is your ISP actually doing that to you right now? Or is that jus…
> But the site isn't being censored?
How do you know? Without https, a MITM-attack might already be in place, and you wouldn't even notice.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
>To overcome government censorship and surveillance. But the site isn't being censored? Also https won't stop the government from knowing that you connected to those servers. I agree that we want to avoid censorship and surveillance in general, but it really doesn't seem relevant here. >To stop internet providers from injecting ads and tracking scripts. Is your ISP actually doing that to you right now? Or is that jus…
> But the site isn't being censored? How do you know? Without https, a MITM-attack might already be in place, and you wouldn't even notice.
I guess that's a fair point.