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Shutting off JS often makes things worse. What I really want is an ultra-aggressive Reader Mode that doesn't get fooled by so many sites. That means it has to
by throwaway81523 3y ago
Shutting off JS often makes things worse. What I really want is an ultra-aggressive Reader Mode that doesn't get fooled by so many sites. That means it has to know how to extricate the relevant text from a bunch of specific sites. At one point I had a special proxy just to clean up a few sites that I was reading frequently, but it broke. I also fooled around with running a headless Firefox under Selenium to get the text out, but I got bored with that. I might try to get that going again, or might try to figure out how browser plugins work.
- eek2121 3y agoI've been toying with the idea of using headless firefox with UBO as a filtering proxy, but nothing has come of it so far. I'm actually focused more on writing a quality search engine that ranks pages based on the amount of anti-user behavior, dark patterns, etc. a site has. Have a really crappy site with tons of ads, popup modals, and trackers? No clicks for you! So I'm doing something similar to what the author is doing I guess.