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The Oath websites and Medium are on my mental blacklists of sites I simply don’t bother with. The content isn’t good enough to care. It does mean I hit comment

The Oath websites and Medium are on my mental blacklists of sites I simply don’t bother with. The content isn’t good enough to care. It does mean I hit comment threads like this and can’t read the article. Oh well, I’m trying to reduce my internet time anyway.

tonyedgecombe 8y ago
Yes, I could do with a plugin to strip links to Medium articles.
- dkersten 8y ago
  Yeah, I was actually trying to find something like this too... maybe its time I looked into how to write browser plugins myself, but I have too many other projects right now.
  - megous 8y ago
    I have a HN filter userscript for this purpose: https://megous.com/dl/hn.js If you filter most of the news websites, and other pointless crap, HN gets pretty technical again.
    - dkersten 8y ago
      Thank you! I've just tried it out, works great. I'm not using quite as strict a filter as you are, basically Oath sites, medium and known paywalled sites. I will add to it as I go :)
sleavey 8y ago
If I get these redirect popups (not just popups over the content, which I can remove with Nuke Anything [1] or use Firefox's distraction free mode), I either just don't visit the site if I don't care that much about its content, or I open a private browser window, accept whatever popups they present, read the article then close the window to purge all their tracking shit. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nuke-anything-enhanced/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nuke-anything...
kevingrahl 8y ago
Outline.com is great if you stumble upon some article you do want to read. Just put in the URL and it’ll strip away everything but the text and images. Here’s an example for the article for this thread: https://outline.com/RThZjn https://outline.com/RThZjn
- fjert 8y ago
  There's a browser extension for it too. Outline has been super convenient when dealing with bloated news sites. Now I'm just thinking about how I'll get my browser to do this automatically for certain sites without having to click the outline button every time
- i_cant_speel 8y ago
  Firefox has a built-in reader view that I like to use on particularly offensive websites.

tonyedgecombe 8y ago

Yes, I could do with a plugin to strip links to Medium articles.

dkersten 8y ago
Yeah, I was actually trying to find something like this too... maybe its time I looked into how to write browser plugins myself, but I have too many other projects right now.
- megous 8y ago
  I have a HN filter userscript for this purpose: https://megous.com/dl/hn.js If you filter most of the news websites, and other pointless crap, HN gets pretty technical again.
  - dkersten 8y ago
    Thank you! I've just tried it out, works great. I'm not using quite as strict a filter as you are, basically Oath sites, medium and known paywalled sites. I will add to it as I go :)

sleavey 8y ago

If I get these redirect popups (not just popups over the content, which I can remove with Nuke Anything [1] or use Firefox's distraction free mode), I either just don't visit the site if I don't care that much about its content, or I open a private browser window, accept whatever popups they present, read the article then close the window to purge all their tracking shit. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nuke-anything-enhanced/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nuke-anything...

kevingrahl 8y ago

Outline.com is great if you stumble upon some article you do want to read. Just put in the URL and it’ll strip away everything but the text and images. Here’s an example for the article for this thread: https://outline.com/RThZjn https://outline.com/RThZjn

fjert 8y ago
There's a browser extension for it too. Outline has been super convenient when dealing with bloated news sites. Now I'm just thinking about how I'll get my browser to do this automatically for certain sites without having to click the outline button every time
i_cant_speel 8y ago
Firefox has a built-in reader view that I like to use on particularly offensive websites.