Stallman of course.

> I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation).

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Using lynx, the only thing that makes reading Hacker News somewhat inconvenient is the lack of indentation to show the nesting hierarchy, but otherwise it works quite well.

Some other sites are so messed up that it's actually more comfortable to read them in a text-only browser that completely ignores CSS and replaces images by their alt-tags.

Of course I frequently do want to look at images, so my main browser remains Firefox, but it's still useful to remember that other browsers with different tradeoffs exist and can be used.

Sometimes, you really just want to read some text and don't need any of that fancy other stuff.

A more interesting question would be if it is possible to disable the "dynamic" part of the CSS in any browser. Things like ":hover", ":active" that this proof of concept abuses and leave just the more benign static styling rules.

Well, I have firefox `layout.css.visited_links_enabled` set to false not to leak history.

Blind users can’t be seen.

Or, at least, disabling `url()` in CSS.

> Whose going to be first to make the 'I always browse the Web with CSS disabled' post?

Is it time for a gopher[0] revival?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

Wouldn't something like this be enough?

    ::before, ::after {
        content: '' !important;
    }

'I always browse the Web with CSS disabled'!!!!111oneoneone /s (is this how it works??)

Doesn't everyone?? ;)