Yeah 12ft doenst seem to work on any sites anymore. Does anyone have any alternatives that work? I’m already familiar with the airplane mode trick but that’s not always fit for purpose.

      • @sheogorath
        34•1 year ago

        Some websites circumvent this by only having one paragraph of the story loaded if you turn off JavaScript.

      • @JubilantJaguar
        10•1 year ago

        Try the serious properties, like Economist or FT. Their paywalls are hard.

        • @[email protected]
          10•1 year ago

          The economist is a bad example lol.

          Their site loads the content before it locks it down. So you can just reload the side and press reading mode before it removes it again.

          • @JubilantJaguar
            2•1 year ago

            If true, it’s all but impossible to actually do this on a normal-speed connection. I had the impression they stopped this method a while ago.

            • @[email protected]
              2•1 year ago

              Worked fine on a 200 Mbit/s connection yesterday at least.

              I can try a gigabit or even 2 gigabit connection next week.

              The developer tab in browsers also has a way to throttle the connection if you want.

              I use Firefox btw.

        • @[email protected]English
          5•1 year ago

          I’m going to get fired at for saying this, but websites like that are why I keep Brave around as a last resort news backup. Its reader mode didn’t get past FT, but easily did so for the Economist.

          (I don’t need education about Brave, but readers can lodge their complaints and do the token rants right here 👇)