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Comment by mds101 | Hacker News Reader

The problem is some brilliant product manager decided that the reader mode button should not be available on all websites and should only be available on those it seems to be articles.

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You can add

    about:reader?url=

before any URL to enable it on any website.

Only on desktop? Does not work on Firefox 98 on Android.

Yeah, only on desktop.

Omg thank you so much! I never knew this. Thank you so much for sharing this!

I’ve never had reader mode not work on archive.is

Which browser do you use? I've never seen it work on archive.is in Firefox. Case in point: https://archive.is/ZPvrO

Specifically only speaking of iOS and Safari. Don’t have FF installed and have never found reader mode option in Chrome.

I am using Firefox 78.15.0esr (64-bit) and had no problem getting to the URL with the above link. Arrived at: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/03/05/vladimir-putin...

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