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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What reader mode needs is a (possibly crowdsourced) setting to be the default view on a per-site basis. (I say this because my main problem with it is forgetting it exists and failing to toggle it on.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, I imagine an entire browser just like that for a long time. You have your settings and every website would look the same. A default frontend for everything. No Javascript, just the content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Ah, yes, the Web as it was intended to be, with semantic markup and separate presentation/styling that the user was not only able, but encouraged by design, to override as he saw fit.

I've spent pretty much my entire adulthood being low-key pissed off about how that got thoroughly and comprehensively fucked as soon as the marketing fuckwads got their hands on the Web.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah that's true, or at least I wish I could make FF remember my settings.