This is, of course, an exaggeration of the both of them. Each has its own use case in which it performs better than the alternative. In truth, I use ubo as much as I use reader view :)
Ublock is down there in the trenches battling face to face with the ads for our sake and you dare to insult them? Reader view would be disappointed in you.
ΒΏPor que no los dos?
Let me guess, you read video subtitles on YouTube?
Sometimes
But damn do more people need actual subtitles rather than the basic speech to text version, shit's rough man
Don't you? I always watch movies and play games with subtitles as well. Granted, English isn't my native language. I would not do that in my native language.
You missed my joke, but that's okay, I'll explain it, I guess. OP said that they don't use uBlock and that people who use it are "virgins" (no offense taken). I made a dig on them, as to how they're watching videos in Firefox's reading mode - by reading the subtitles?
Yo I didn't know reader view existed what. That's amazing thank you.
However, I've never encountered any problems with unmodified ublock, worked perfectly out of the box for me. On the rare case that I come across a website that wants me to disable my adblocker I simply do not care enough about whatever is on that website to do so.
(Edit)
Alright so I tried it on a few websites and got a "cannot complete request" page as well as "Additional information about this problem or error is currently unavailable." Pressing try again did not help
BTW Firefox has a built-in function that checks if the extractable text from the website is βacceptableβ and will decide whether to display the button.
You can trigger it everywhere using
about:reader?url=https%3A%2F%2F[...]
You can use another trick: bookmark about:reader?url=%s and add read as its keyword (only in Properties window, separate from βtagsβ). Then put readβ£ in front of any URL you want to view with Reader Mode!
Oh that's really handy! Thanks m7
Are you sure the left part is about ublock origin and not noscript?
The worst part about NoScript is gradually learning just how extreme the script situation has become. Today's web won't be archived nearly as well as Web 1.0 was. It's only gotten more hostile to people with disabilities.
Reader view is great. But uBlock has its own purpose
Reader mode is just regular Chad, me with my RSS reader with built in reader mode is the real Giga Chad
I hope you are using newsboat and opening web pages in w3m
You forgot the key weakness of read mode: its dark mode is not real black (#000000), but dark grey. The difference is staggering with OLED screens.
I hate dark backgrounds though. Too much contrast.
There's a reason most dark programming color schemes don't have true black as their background, and it's precisely this.
But if done right (with grey text or something), it could be phenomenal.
Darker text is the solution
Dark grey makes for a better dark mode than black anyway.
The sad thing is that well made websites can be a beautiful thing. But with the amount of ads they ruin that experience. And by enabling read mode all that website design that came up in the last year's is gone again
It is possible to have a well designed website with ads. Unfortunately, once you start using analytics, you can figure out how to "tweak" your design to increase engagement with ads, thereby increasing revenue.
Before long, your well designed website is a crappy website because that brings in the bacon.
There is an addon "activate reader view" that can force it if its not officially supported, sometimes works.
Reader view is also a god send if you have ADHD or just struggle with attention span around electronics.
Other than the fonts, the left side honestly pretty accurate. uBlock Origin for life though.
Is there a way to make reader view automatic on sites where it makes sense? Quite often use it when I get the "uwu pwease disable adbwock" message on a sketchy site but would be nice to just always have it on those kind of sites
I've briefly looked into this before and couldn't find anything obvious. Would love to hear if someone else has managed to make it work!
You're not the first one to ask this and Iβm tired so Iβll just slightly edit my other comment. Only read bold parts if you've read that one.
where it makes sense
Firefox has a built-in function that checks if the extractable text from the website is βacceptableβ and will decide whether to display the button. I don't think the result of this function is available to extensions but you should ask Firefox devs, maybe add an enhancement request.
You can trigger it everywhere using
about:reader?url=https%3A%2F%2F[...]
You can use another trick: bookmark about:reader?url=%s and add read as its keyword (only in Properties window, separate from βtagsβ). Then put readβ£ in front of any URL you want to view with Reader Mode!
There is also an extension called β Redirector, which can do this for you automatically. However, it is rather clunky: you must create a Regex pattern to match URLs that you want to be affected, and youβll need to temporarily disable the extension to exit Reader Mode.
Unfortunately this doesn't really work for me, the ideal use case is either have reader mode automatically enable where firefox thinks it should be able to (which is not always that accurate anyway)
Alternatively I might look into making an extension that just has a whitelist of all the sites/domains to use it on that everyone can contribute to
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