For less pragmatic reasons I already tend to read news from text-only pages. For example, http://lite.cnn.com/en http://lite.cnn.com/en and https://text.npr.org

For less pragmatic reasons I already tend to read news from text-only pages. For example, http://lite.cnn.com/en http://lite.cnn.com/en and https://text.npr.org https://text.npr.org. They are far less noisy in every way. I got into the habit because of Raspberry Pi prior to version 4, which could easily choke on the background shenanigans ads tend to force upon you without bandwidth and processing power considerations. But its such a good habit, I've never stopped, even on laptop or desktop. If they have something visual I want to see, I just highlight the title and "Search for..." the graphic version. You'd think sites like this would have a direct link to the article from the text-only page, but if you click what they give you, it sends you to the front page instead. So they've got it about half right. Unsurprisingly the lack of flab and inconsiderate resource usage is what attracted me to HN from the beginning. Also the (usually) more intelligent comment section.