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Readable sweeps all that shit away and puts the plain text on a plain background. Use it and you'll stop caring what lightboxes and other crap web sites festoon
by funkah 15y ago
Readable sweeps all that shit away and puts the plain text on a plain background. Use it and you'll stop caring what lightboxes and other crap web sites festoon their pages with. Safari's reader is nice as well, it even auto fetches all the pages in a multi page article.
- brigade 15y agoIt's still an extra click. Most of the time I just close the window - the web is big enough that if you're desperate enough to use such scummy ads (or beg for survey results?!?) then your content likely isn't worth reading.
- funkah 15y agoIt's a click that I would have made anyway, because the type in a normal web page is not good for log form reading, where long form is more than a few paragraphs or so. ie, even if there were zero ads I would use Readability (or Instapaper, or whatever).
- jasonkester 15y agoArticle: It sucks that we need to use things like Readability just to read things on the internet. Parent: Just use Readability. In short, not very helpful as comments go.
- funkah 15y agoI suppose you've got me there. If the argument is "but it's an extra click", I can't say I feel much sympathy.