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I browse with js off by default using the setting in uBlock Origin. It works great.

When you encounter a site (usually news sites) where the article looks wonky, just use Firefox's "reader view" which pulls out the text and puts it into a nicely formatted, clean tab.

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Until they work out how to properly disable reader view because it allows you to avoid JavaScript driven paywalls and Incognito/Private Mode nags.

Good point. I think some sites have already figured this out. I'll find one every now and then that clearly has a giant chunk of text in the center, but the reader view option doesn't activate.

Wonder if there's a flag that disables it or something.

I find that Pocket frequently works to get around paywalls. I use it primarily for this purpose.

It might be as simple as not adding any semantic markup (an article element for example) for Reader View to use, but you could do all sorts of things with element positioning or pseudo elements to mess it up for non-humans.

Apparently it's a pretty complicated, holistic system of pulling just the main text.

FF uses this for its reader view: https://github.com/mozilla/readability

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