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Didn't read because of the fuckery with the mouse pointer. Why do sites have to do this crap.

Brajeshwar 7mo ago
It has been a while (I think ever since Safari introduced Reader Mode), and I do almost all my reading on websites in Reader Mode. For some websites, I have set to “Use Reader Mode when Available,” such as that of paulgraham.com, daringfireball.net, and quite a few others with horrible Typography.
- Liftyee 7mo ago
  Guess I'll make this a habit and find a similar auto-Reader-Mode feature in Firefox. I like my cursor just the way it is.
- uxcolumbo 7mo ago
  Same here. Even this article wasn't that comfortable to read, so had to use Reader Mode. I don't understand though why reader mode is not always available. The text is there.
  - swiftcoder 7mo ago
    > I don't understand though why reader mode is not always available. The text is there. Mostly because we don't have any standard markup to say "this is the content". Which means reader mode has to guess which tags contain the content, and this whole thing boils down to a pair of regexps[1] [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/08be6b4bdb204dd333c9b7a0cfbc0e730b257252/Readability-readerable.js#L26-L27 https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/08be6b4bdb204dd3...
Dylan16807 7mo ago
Are you calling a custom mouse icon crap/fuckery that makes you leave the site, or was there something I missed? If you are that's a pretty big overreaction. And it's probably worth you setting the single line to disable `cursor` on all sites via userContent.css or a styling extension.
- SoftTalker 7mo ago
  Yes. There is absolutely no need to do that. And no need for me to take extra steps to undo whatever shit you just smeared on my screen, easier to just close the tab. Pick a legible font, size, properly contrasting colors, and leave the rest alone.
Sajarin 7mo ago
You can turn it off, there's a little toggle at the bottom of the page.

It has been a while (I think ever since Safari introduced Reader Mode), and I do almost all my reading on websites in Reader Mode. For some websites, I have set to “Use Reader Mode when Available,” such as that of paulgraham.com, daringfireball.net, and quite a few others with horrible Typography.

Liftyee 7mo ago
Guess I'll make this a habit and find a similar auto-Reader-Mode feature in Firefox. I like my cursor just the way it is.
uxcolumbo 7mo ago
Same here. Even this article wasn't that comfortable to read, so had to use Reader Mode. I don't understand though why reader mode is not always available. The text is there.
- swiftcoder 7mo ago
  > I don't understand though why reader mode is not always available. The text is there. Mostly because we don't have any standard markup to say "this is the content". Which means reader mode has to guess which tags contain the content, and this whole thing boils down to a pair of regexps[1] [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/08be6b4bdb204dd333c9b7a0cfbc0e730b257252/Readability-readerable.js#L26-L27 https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/08be6b4bdb204dd3...

Dylan16807 7mo ago

Are you calling a custom mouse icon crap/fuckery that makes you leave the site, or was there something I missed? If you are that's a pretty big overreaction. And it's probably worth you setting the single line to disable `cursor` on all sites via userContent.css or a styling extension.

SoftTalker 7mo ago
Yes. There is absolutely no need to do that. And no need for me to take extra steps to undo whatever shit you just smeared on my screen, easier to just close the tab. Pick a legible font, size, properly contrasting colors, and leave the rest alone.

Sajarin 7mo ago

You can turn it off, there's a little toggle at the bottom of the page.