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This site made me add my first-ever global Stylus sheet:

* { font-variant-ligatures:unset!important; }

I'm pretty infuriated that this is necessary, why would someone abuse readability so much for their own personal satisfaction about how "cool and unique" they are? Usability. Comes. First.

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It's their website. They can do with it whatever the hell they want with it. They owe random people on HN exactly nothing. And you can also do whatever the hell you want on your website, because that's your website.

You also need to reset "font-feature-settings" by the way.

and he can globally remove whatever he wants from being displayed in his browser with global style overrides!

what a glorious world we live in

They didn't just add a tip how to override it, they said this should not be done at all.

I wouldn't turn off all ligatures, some of them are actually useful.

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