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Re:Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome by shawn on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:43AM (#17302466)
For everyone having trouble accessing the article, here's a paste: https://pastebin.com/raw/S229NyJW

Actually, it's interesting reading an article with just text and nothing else. It kind of makes me want a text-based browser mode that works on modern sites.

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Re:Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome by nerdponx on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:47AM (#17302503)
The "reader mode" in Safari and Firefox is pretty good.
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Re:Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome by vanderZwan on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:05AM (#17302636)
Now if only we could directly open articles in text mode, and save ourselves the pain of loading (or at least rendering) all the crap first. Like a right-click menu option next to the "Open in new tab/window/private tab" options
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Re:Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome by nerdponx on Thursday June 14, 2018 @07:46AM (#17310906)
As far as I can tell, the Firefox reader mode algorithm needs the entire page loaded in order to figure out what part of the page is actual content. It's necessary because nowadays you can't tell from the HTML alone.
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Re:Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome by vanderZwan on Thursday June 14, 2018 @11:21AM (#17312352)
I guess that makes sense, but even then: loading is not the same as rendering to screen. I don't know which of the two is the bigger drain on resources in mobile, but it can still help.
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Re:Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome by dao- on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:47AM (#17302502)
You mean Reader View? I believe Safari pioneered this, Firefox has it too. Not sure about Chrome and Edge.
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Re:Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome by black6 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:00AM (#17302599)
Chrome will do it, but Google doesn't like to make it easy for you to remove content/noise. In Windows you have to add

  --enable-dom-distiller
to the end of "Target" in the shortcut properties. Then it shows up as "Distill page" in the drop-down menu.

Edge has reader mode, but it won't work for every webpage (seems to not work for the noisiest ones, where you really want it).

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