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It’s hard to beat https://lite.cnn.com https://lite.cnn.com and https://text.npr.org https://text.npr.org (I imagine their own employees likely use these as wel
by keane 7mo ago
It’s hard to beat https://lite.cnn.com https://lite.cnn.com and https://text.npr.org https://text.npr.org (I imagine their own employees likely use these as well) or https://newsminimalist.com https://newsminimalist.com
- TheMode 7mo agohttps://lite.cnn.com https://lite.cnn.com seems to load 200KB of CSS
- tomcatfish 7mo agoCannot reproduce on my machine
- goodmythical 7mo agosimilar for me. homepage: 47.25 kB transferred with articles averaging ~70kB with ublock origin having refreshingly zero impact.
- TheMode 7mo ago200KB uncompressed* You can download the homepage html see the style block.
- benbristow 7mo agoComes to about 2MB for me, which seems to be because they've added the EU cookie policy compliance bloat (probably from a third-party). Once that's agreed to via cookies the page is 47KB.
- aembleton 7mo ago27KB of CSS for me, but only if I switch off uBO. Otherwise, there's no CSS. I think the CSS is just for the cookie popup styling.
- gxs 7mo agoI’m honestly dumbfounded that these exist In the past some site had light versions, but I haven’t come across one in over 10 years Makes me wonder if this isn’t just some rogue employee maintaining this without anyone else realizing it It’s the light version, but ironically I would happily pay these ad networks a monthly $20 to just serve these lite pages and not track me. They don’t make anywhere close to that from me in a year Sadly, here’s how it would go: they’d do it, it be successful, they’d ipo, after a few years they’d need growth, they’d introduce a new tier with ads, and eventually you’d somehow wind up watching ads again
- RajT88 7mo agoLove both of them. CNN has become a bit "left-leaning Fox News" for my taste, though. If Al Jazeera or BBC had a similar text only site, that would be best. I really love the different perspectives. I mostly use brutalist.report to find the articles, then deal with them on a case by case basis.
- jszymborski 7mo ago> CNN has become a bit "left-leaning Fox News" for my taste, though. Don't worry, it'll be just like the real Fox news after the Paramount merger.
- kitd 7mo agoAt least the BBC has RSS feeds for its stories, which avoids having to go through the dire news front page.
- Gormo 7mo agoMost news sites have RSS feeds. CNN is the major exception.
- tommica 7mo agoAhh, I love them. The fact that they are fast, give you the exact thing you are looking for without any other noise is just amazing!
- yabones 7mo agoI also love https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news They also compress the hell out of the images, so it all loads shockingly well on poor connections.