| ▲ | keane 11 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It’s hard to beat https://lite.cnn.com and https://text.npr.org (I imagine their own employees likely use these as well) or https://newsminimalist.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | RajT88 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Love both of them. CNN has become a bit "left-leaning Fox News" for my taste, though. If Al Jazeera or BBC had a similar text only site, that would be best. I really love the different perspectives. I mostly use brutalist.report to find the articles, then deal with them on a case by case basis. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | tommica 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ahh, I love them. The fact that they are fast, give you the exact thing you are looking for without any other noise is just amazing! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | TheMode 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
https://lite.cnn.com seems to load 200KB of CSS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | gxs 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I’m honestly dumbfounded that these exist In the past some site had light versions, but I haven’t come across one in over 10 years Makes me wonder if this isn’t just some rogue employee maintaining this without anyone else realizing it It’s the light version, but ironically I would happily pay these ad networks a monthly $20 to just serve these lite pages and not track me. They don’t make anywhere close to that from me in a year Sadly, here’s how it would go: they’d do it, it be successful, they’d ipo, after a few years they’d need growth, they’d introduce a new tier with ads, and eventually you’d somehow wind up watching ads again | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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