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I use Firefox reader, but the same idea. I actually prefer it this way (except I don't like that the reader doesn't support Vi/Emacs navigation...) For content that is just text, I prefer that the author keeps the styling to the minimum. It makes it easier to do it the way I want it client-side.", "context": "", "use_case": "reading text pages", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bug Blindness"}, {"id": 769222608, "item_id": 48076413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076413", "by": "drzaiusx11", "date": "2026-05-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "thank God for FireFox Reader mode", "excerpt": "I love this 4bit \"isa\" with 12 simple instructions. It makes me want to dig out my old 74x chips from storage and make one. That said, thank God for FireFox Reader mode, on mobile at least the add popups make this excellent blog post unreadable..", "context": "", "use_case": "reading ad-heavy pages on mobile", "switched_from": "", "story": "Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU"}, {"id": 757115538, "item_id": 47319721, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319721", "by": "Ogbon", "date": "2026-03-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Firefox's is better but I'm a Chrome user.", "excerpt": "I got fed up with reading online. Every article I open comes wrapped in cookie banners, autoplaying videos, sidebar ads, and subscribe popups. Chrome has a built-in reader mode but it only works on a handful of sites and has zero customisation. Firefox's is better but I'm a Chrome user. So I built READR \u2014 a Chrome extension that strips any webpage down to just the content. 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That said, thank God for FireFox Reader mode, on mobile at least the add popups make this excellent blog post unreadable..", "context": "", "use_case": "reading ad-heavy pages on mobile", "switched_from": "", "story": "Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU"}, {"id": 757115538, "item_id": 47319721, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319721", "by": "Ogbon", "date": "2026-03-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Firefox's is better but I'm a Chrome user.", "excerpt": "I got fed up with reading online. Every article I open comes wrapped in cookie banners, autoplaying videos, sidebar ads, and subscribe popups. Chrome has a built-in reader mode but it only works on a handful of sites and has zero customisation. Firefox's is better but I'm a Chrome user. So I built READR \u2014 a Chrome extension that strips any webpage down to just the content. 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