"This is what South Florida looks like now"
text only :P
Text-only CNN
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try noscript, ghostery, or the other one that escapes me at the moment. News sites in general have about twenty JavaScript ad trackers on them each.
There's also Ublock Origin(general ad block, with highly granular options), and Privacy Badger.
That's the one I was thinking of.
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#273Someone pointed out below, but in a comment way down in the thread, but CNN is actually who's behind this: https://twitter.com/CNN/status/906821174805630976 I'm not sure if the reason behind this is because of possible weak phone connections or that the hurricane is a good way to promote the text only site, but either way, huge shoutout to CNN for going forward with this themselves. I've thought for a while about scr…
remember when rss was going to give us this?
RSS does give us this.
http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss
TinyTinyRSS and Fever make it a pretty good experience too.
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#274Earlier 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…
My ISP, WideOpenWest, uses HTTP injection as their primary method for notifying customers of maintenance, etc.
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what CNN looked like on 9/11: http://i.imgur.com/tqnVwp6.jpg All the major sites switched to something like this when the internet slowed to a halt. I assume they've always had a minimal version ready in case something like it happens again.
I'd pay $5/month for a reputable news site to provide this all year long.
If you send me $5/month, I'll come over and turn Javascript off in your browser.
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
"This is what the world needs." maybe the world needed back in 1983 ted turner never to start up 24/7 news? Didn't and doesn't human DNA jive better with less news, less often?
Good point. CNN should put hours on their website and only serve news between 9am and 5pm. Nobody needs to watch 24/7 news
it's more than that. We used to have a morning edition newspaper and then the late edition. That's it. Two times a day to get fresh news. Even 9-5 too much.
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
a 16GB RAM machine to run something that ran on 16MB
So that you can open 1024 pages before swapping to disk. People asked for hundreds of open tabs, they got it.
Even on a 16MB machine I had open tens of tabs without much problem, browser responsiveness on Firebird(?) was the same as this multi-core machine
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#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://www.npr.org ? It's not text only but it's considerably more minimal than most news websites, loads almost instantly, doesn't have auto play content, and is considered a reputable source. The BBC used to be similar but their international website is awful now (slow to load, more adverts, and less emphasis on actual news).
It's text-only when you use http://thin.npr.org
Funny how the main site loaded much faster than this version for me. Wonder if it does reverse with a 2G connection.
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#280When 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…
A while back I did a comparison of the code behind the major search engines' landing pages, and found that DuckDuckGo is by far the cleanest, simplest, and most accessible, yet they still manage to make a living on text ads in their results. Another easy way to see the difference is to load each site up in a text-only browser like links . You'll find that DDG has the cleanest interface there, too. I still use Startpa…
Duckduck go is a pretty good engine for 90% of searches.
I wonder however whether its (perhaps tenuous) connection with Yandex and Russia should give pause? I admit I have only read this in a headline several years back.