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Comment by wcoenen | Hacker News Reader

Redirects to history.nl for me, with no article to be found.

(I'm not even in the Netherlands, and my browser doesn't ask for Dutch via Accept-Language.)

For everyone having trouble accessing the article, here's a paste: https://pastebin.com/raw/S229NyJW

Actually, it's interesting reading an article with just text and nothing else. It kind of makes me want a text-based browser mode that works on modern sites.

You mean Reader View? I believe Safari pioneered this, Firefox has it too. Not sure about Chrome and Edge.

Chrome will do it, but Google doesn't like to make it easy for you to remove content/noise. In Windows you have to add

  --enable-dom-distiller

to the end of "Target" in the shortcut properties. Then it shows up as "Distill page" in the drop-down menu.

Edge has reader mode, but it won't work for every webpage (seems to not work for the noisiest ones, where you really want it).

The "reader mode" in Safari and Firefox is pretty good.

Now if only we could directly open articles in text mode, and save ourselves the pain of loading (or at least rendering) all the crap first. Like a right-click menu option next to the "Open in new tab/window/private tab" options

As far as I can tell, the Firefox reader mode algorithm needs the entire page loaded in order to figure out what part of the page is actual content. It's necessary because nowadays you can't tell from the HTML alone.

I guess that makes sense, but even then: loading is not the same as rendering to screen. I don't know which of the two is the bigger drain on resources in mobile, but it can still help.

Redirects to https://www.history.co.uk/ for me. Stupid.

Google's cache works.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ehTZ26r...

Redirects to www.seuhistory.com for me (brazilian version of the History Channel's site). This site is terrible. I tried to read another article from US (i assume) version and it is impossible. It redirects to your localized site (where there are different articles and posts) and doesn't let you choose.

Horrible UX

In Finland I get historytv.fi. Google Cache to the rescue: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ehTZ26r...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180613121726/https://www.histo...

Redirects to history.de for me. (Which is correct in some geofencing sense, using a vpn solves the problem.)

Sort of fun to have a light challenge to obtain documents THEY (history.com) don't want you to see.

I'm in the Netherlands, and have the same problem

Redirects to www.historytv.se in sweden

Same here in Spain. Utterly retarded.

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