Today's web is unusable without these two:
- uBlock Origin
- I Do Not Care About Cookies
The latter can also be configured for uBlock:
https://majkiit.github.io/polish-ads-filter/#i_dont_care_abo...
The most underused browser feature: reader mode
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Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Many sites already work around this, and reader mode only shows a blank page or the contents of the disavow human rights box. Refresh while in reader mode. The DOM with most paywalls is destroyed post-render, not before it reaches the web browser. Refreshing in reader mode prevents client side scripts from executing and rewriting the DOM. I'm presuming this is to be search engine friendly, but I'll leave it to the…
With iOS, for example, refreshing npr.org just turns off reader mode.
As you refresh it should change the address bar saying reader mode avaiable and you should be able to quickly hit the Aa icon on the top left.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#153Reader mode really helps me in printing as well. Old comment of mine: Printing is something I started to do some months ago. Instead of keeping the tab open for weeks, I decided I'd print anything I want to read and place it a physical "inbox". Some tips: I print 2 pages to a side, so 4 pages per printer paper. Even long articles don't use too much paper, and for my eyes it's still readable (there are a few articles…
I'm the exact opposite - I love having books and articles on devices. Physical clutter is a problem for me so this is liberating.
reading on my iphone or kindle doesn't seem to strain my eyes.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#154Reader mode really helps me in printing as well. Old comment of mine: Printing is something I started to do some months ago. Instead of keeping the tab open for weeks, I decided I'd print anything I want to read and place it a physical "inbox". Some tips: I print 2 pages to a side, so 4 pages per printer paper. Even long articles don't use too much paper, and for my eyes it's still readable (there are a few articles…
> Bad for the environment. Good for the brain. That's just bad for the environment two times lol
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Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#155I use it all the time to avoid a lot of modal popup article blockers and the like.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#156Not in my house it's not. A lot of sites are practically unreadable without reader mode these days.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting, but doesn't seem to work for me.
You're right. I checked with the new Firefox (the one with the "too many taps" GUI from one year ago) and it doesn't work anymore. I'm using the old Firefox on my main phone and it explicitly says "Saved offline" when I bookmark a Reader Mode page. The new Firefox on the backup phone says "Bookmark saved". One more reason to stay on the old Firefox.
This was one of the features I was actually sad to see go when I updated Firefox.
I used this feature a lot as it was mainly manuals that I was saving.
They also replaced the default start page to be Collections instead of bookmarks, which b of course for me was empty.
I think I've got used to the new layout that I probably won't downgrade just for the offline capabilities.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#158Shameless plug: I maintain a cross-browser reader extension that is like reader mode with some additional features. It's called Just Read: https://justread.link/
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#159Any developers who'd like to contribute to improving how article content is extracted from web pages should check out Mozilla's Readability repository: https://github.com/mozilla/readability I'm currently trying to bring the PHP port up to speed here: https://github.com/fivefilters/readability.php We use an older version as part of our article extraction for Push to Kindle: https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/
I believe the Instant View[1] crowdsourcing model where people write templates for each website could boost a lot these parsers (hope they open source it soon). Its just impossible to make these extensions work for every single website with some simple heuristics. Check the codebase of some popular parsers: Firefox (already mentioned): https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/master/Readabili... Google Chrome: htt…
Thanks for mentioning Instant View, I hadn't come across that. We actually maintain something similar here: https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config
We use these in our own tools and also get contributions from others, including Wallabag users: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
Before it was sold, Instapaper used to have something similar. A public database of its site-specific extraction templates. We used that as the starting point for our repository.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll be honest, this is my favourite feature of my Kobo - using Pocket to save webpages and articles and read them offline. It seems to accomplish a similar goal to what you do here - without the need for all that paper.
I doubt he will print as much, so your e-reader will have less environmental impact. All that plastic and components are certainly the equivalent of several, if not hundreds of reams of paper.
I don't think he bought the Kobo only for reading webpages tho, so you cannot really do a direct comparison like this.