Hacker News Reader

There is practically nothing on the webpage for uBlock, Ghostery and Privacy Badger to block.

It's like a dream come true.

Wow, it's like browsing the internet in 2009 again - everything just works.

How did the web get so morbidly bloated again?

It's beautiful. This is how the web should be.

And how quite a few sites are. It's always a pleasure using those.

Sadly, the majority of sites linked to from Hacker News are not. Half of them is a form of Medium.com and the other half are abominations ranging from autoplay videos that follow you as you scroll to full page reload / jumps if you scroll down too far. It is a constant UI/UX dark/bad pattern showcase.

I use uBlock Origin and there are 50 websites I mostly fixed with custom css via Stylebot, but still, I see several new pages like that daily.

It does IP-based geo location. All non-EU visitors are redirected to https://www.usatoday.com/

I just checked it out using a VPN. I felt like I was transported back in time to the later 90's. Quickly went through the page source. Much more HTML action going on that the old version.

This is what the web should be like.