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Tangential, but why is it so hard in 2022 to make your simple article load without JavaScript? No reader mode either.

Well, because the served page is just a shell, and the actual article content is served via a separate graphql query. Obviously the only way to do it!

For content like this (ie not actually interactive content that might require javascript), I send it to archive.ph, and then almost always you can load the page in readermode or at least with javascript disabled)

Thanks for the archive.ph tip! That's a pretty neat trick. I'll try that out going forward.

It's not hard, but you're probably not their target audience so they don't care. The best you can do these days is to either use a compromise like and archive.org plugin or ublock origin.

I use uBlock Origin to block all Javascript by default with custom rules for websites that need it. IMO, articles aren't websites that need an exception, but that's changing more and more every day. I'm definitely not their target audience, agreed.

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