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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by Arcsech on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:13PM (#13544611)
Not that it absolves the owner of the site, but Readability mode is built just for sites like this.

Still doesn't help the gifs though.

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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by enraged_camel on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:48PM (#13544971)
I found the gifs really obnoxious. Yes we get it, it's an article about Mechanical Turk and the guy from Scrubs is named Turk. Wow! No need to repeat the same "joke" EIGHT times.
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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by tmaly on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:39PM (#13544870)
Sorry to ask, but what is readability mode and how do I use it. I googled, but due to SEO I get a ton of results.
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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:54PM (#13545048)
Readability is a browser feature that extracts the text of a website and displays it in a pre-defined, easy to read way. Safari calls this feature “Reader”[1].

[1] https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21467?locale=en_US

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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by freehunter on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:53PM (#13545035)
Many browsers have a "reading" mode or extension that strips CSS and pictures. Safari Reader is built in, Firefox and Chrome have an extension called Readability that you can install.
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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by toomanybeersies on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:21PM (#13546461)
It's built into firefox as far as I know, it's on the right hand end of the uri bar for me.
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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by freehunter on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:38PM (#13546963)
Holy cow I've used Firefox since it was called Mozilla browser and was owned by Netscape and I've never seen that a reader mode was built in.

I'm an idiot.

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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by Larrikin on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:39PM (#13547904)
It's one of the best things about the browser on mobile phones. I never have an issue with weird JavaScript pop ups or sites that are not movie friendly.
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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by tmaly on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:55AM (#13551375)
don't feel so bad, I am in the same boat. I remember loading up Netscape to my 486 with a 3.5 floppy
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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by quest88 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:49PM (#13544983)
It's a Firefox feature. That feature alone made me switch to FF for browsing.
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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by notduncansmith on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:55PM (#13545061)
Also in Safari, it's the little 3-line icon in the URL bar.
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