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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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