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Comment by fourseventy | Hacker News Reader

After all the ads and pop ups loaded on this website I could only see about three lines of text on my phone. Cancerous website.

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I've been using Speedreader (shipped by default on Brave) and this page loaded as pure text without any JS Elements/Ads for me. I'd definitely recommend Brave solely for this feature: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045031392-Wha...

If you are on mobile you should check Bromite. It's a fork of Chromium with an ad blocker and better privacy (and not bs privacy like Brave)

> some random fly-by-night chrome fork

you people will be remembered as the folks who installed a dozen shaddy tool bars on internet explorer in the 90s.

Just use Firefox and uBlockOrigin. jeez.

Anything on IOS?

Reader mode gets me most of the way. Otherwise I just don’t bother with the website as they don’t deserve to be read.

While I use Firefox as my main browser on all systems (i.e. Linux and Android and occasionally MacOS (only for testing purposes)) I also have Bromite around for those sites which just refuse to work in Firefox/Gecko and to test whether things work as intended on the Blink engine. I keep my own blocklist to feed to Bromite, based on the same lists as I use in uBlock on Firefox.

Sadly, I already tried it and it used to crash a lot, specially when I had too many tabs (10+) open.

The some random fly-by-night chrome fork is the most sane option I know since the only option left is Brave

Firefox mobile also allows adblocker extensions. With the nightly version you can even install userscripts.

Not on iOS

Because iOS doesn't allow Firefox. I.e it's not the real browser, they can't use their own engine (gecko).

I already tried it and it used to crash, specially when I had too many tabs (10+) open.

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