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When I'm on lynx I find I don't miss the rest of the Web. Reading documents without people constantly trying to sell me crap is kind of refreshing.


I agree with what you're saying but firefox with ublock origin and reader mode is definitely useful


Is there a good way to automatically *always* have reader mode on?

Better yet, are there any ways to *not even load the other junk*, just load the text only for the reader mode.

As far as I understand, Firefox still loads everything, does the parsing for everything, loads all those ads etc (and no, uBO does not get all of them), and then - *if you click the reader button in the URL box* - it will switch to reader mode. Seems quite backwards to the point of not really a workable solution for the automation junkie programmers of HN.

Would be nice to have a solution with better defaults to give reader mode automatically, default use uMatrix (much better than noscript btw) for control native to the browser, etc for a more snappy and controllable (with paths to private and secure) browsing experience. Having a tui would be icing on the cake.

Lynx just works though, and sidesteps all the js junk.


> Better yet, are there any ways to not even load the other junk, just load the text only for the reader mode.

You can use uMatrix to default block all stylesheets and JS. Then apply your own user stylesheet.




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