Reader 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. Psst. Paper is a renewable resource and easy to recycle at least a couple times.
The most underused browser feature: reader mode
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#172On i remember how often I used printfriendly just for that.
Also I find the irony of reader mode quite funny. Lets build the most dynamic and capable presentation system so we can go relive bbs
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#173My favourite and often used browser feature (Firefox).
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#174Reader 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…
You can do similar on the Kindle or any other ereader. There's a chrome extension called 'send2kindle' that sends a simplified version of the webpage you have open directly to your device.
I'll just open tabs on the browser of whichever articles or texts will consist of my morning reading diet that day and send them all to my Kindle. Very practical device to read and no more falling in a trap of continuous clicking on more and more links, while lending a crappy level of attention to the actual reading.
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#175Honestly now that I think about it it's kind of surprising that Chrome has a reader mode button at all; why would a company whose business is mostly "serving ads" want to make it easier for you to get rid of them?
Sssh, a Chrome PM might be reading!
So more people will switch to Firefox, good!
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#176I gotta go back and figure out if I can submit a PR to fix footnotes, though [1]. I don't like using Reader Mode when I know there might be stuff missing, so I itch to go and check.
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#177The main reason reader mode is "underused" is that for a substantial fraction of pages, it does not work. Because of the way the human motivational architecture works, if there were a reader mode that always worked, its rate of usage would be many times higher than the usage rates of the current crop of reader modes. But of course, there is no way to create a reader mode that works for all web pages -- and that fact…
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> Gemini is not intended to replace either Gopher or the web, but to co-exist peacefully alongside them as one more option which people can freely choose to use if it suits them. In the same way that some people currently serve the same content via gopher and the web, people will be able to "bihost" or "trihost" content on whichever combination of protocols they think offer the best match to their technical, philosophical and aesthetic requirements and those of their intended audience.
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#178Does no one else user reader mode? I’ve found it the only way to stay sane on sites where ad blockers don’t work.
Which adblocker do you use? With ublock origin I almost never encounter sites where ads are visible.
Only happens on mobile sometimes, and when a site forces you to turn it off to function. I'm on ublock too any other time! I feel a deep sense of pity for anyone still surfing the web unprotected!
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#179Reader 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. Psst. Paper is a renewable resource and easy to recycle at least a couple times.
That's a spurious claim! Pulp harvesting often destroys the native flora and fauna, and the cost of lost forests and animal habitat cannot be recovered.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's only a matter of time before sites start rolling out anti-reader mode "features."
I stopped using these modes years ago because of inconsistent results that I assume must be from reader-blocking tech.
I stopped using those sites, instead. I figure that if they're so far up in themselves that they want to employ such user-hostile design, I'm probably not missing much if I just move on and read something else.