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Street-Badger t1_ixua71x wrote

An iron curtain is stretching across this story .. it’s paywalled.

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Flatus_Diabolic t1_ixw7zgq wrote

If you're on iOS, tap the symbol that looks like two letter As in the URL bar for Safari and pick "show reader" from the menu.

On Android, you need to enable "simplified view" in the accessibility settings for your phone. After that, it's available through Chrome when you load a page.

Desktop browsers have reader modes too. Or I assume they all do. Edge and Firefox definitely both do, and they're the only browsers I use.

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Snamuhfotseizal t1_ixyqnku wrote

Thank you for your post. I've just spent a few minutes experimenting on some websites that often have a few articles behind paywalls and after doing a bit of googling about "reader mode" for my Firefox browser I found out that it is just a simple mouse-click in the address bar and all those paywalls (along with the cluttered ads and graphics) disappear. Much appreciated!

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Flatus_Diabolic t1_iy17s71 wrote

high-five, fellow Firefox buddy!

Yeah, for other people reading this message who haven't found it already, if reader view is available for the page you're on, then you can enable it by clicking the the thing that looks like a book in the right hand side of the URL bar.

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240kvert t1_ixy1xtm wrote

I always have the Google translate webpage opened in the browser, any sites like this you just get it to translate them - English to English, and it opens up.

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