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Is an interesting history but the best part is the web having a plain text option as alternative to the "I agree on you taking my info" button. Saying readers that other options are possible is a very good example of the "common knowledge" referred in the article.

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It would be great if it worked, but it forgets the link to the article and redirects you to the home page in plain text instead which is completely useless...

Here is the article on the text-only site:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=627355954

I just realised how absolutely fine I would be to read articles in that manner.

not useless but you do have to record the article ID and use it to get the article you actually want, if it's not in the list. For example this article's text-only version is https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=627355954

I vastly prefer the text-only site and am glad NPR has it. The photos and other page crap never help with the article anyway, just slow down reading.

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