I have to, in many cases. Too many sites blazing white, like staring into a monitor-sized car headlight, with faint spidery gray text unresolvable among the glare.
This used to be taught as "good UI design." I disagree strongly...
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone highlight text as they read?
#62I do. Except on sites like Medium where if you click anything it highjacks the selection and gives you a bunch of nonsense. For example this article on the front page right now: https://medium.com/enzymit-log/why-enzymit-decided-to-build-... Try selecting text.
I use the Stylus browser extension to write and automatically apply CSS to websites I visit often.
Just add:
#root ~ div { display: none !important; }
.. to your custom stylesheet for medium.com (and all their crappy subdomains and clones) to get rid of that super irritating social media popup thing.
Either that or use Firefox's underrated "reader view" by pressing F9. It's totally worth it.
Stylus for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/ Stylus for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...
Re: Ask HN: Anyone highlight text as they read?
#63I do it, but only for annotating text, and then recalling it (sometimes by tags) on my Hypothesis profile: https://hypothes.is/users/pyxelr