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Didn't read because of the fuckery with the mouse pointer. Why do sites have to do this crap.

Are you calling a custom mouse icon crap/fuckery that makes you leave the site, or was there something I missed? If you are that's a pretty big overreaction. And it's probably worth you setting the single line to disable `cursor` on all sites via userContent.css or a styling extension.

Yes. There is absolutely no need to do that. And no need for me to take extra steps to undo whatever shit you just smeared on my screen, easier to just close the tab.

Pick a legible font, size, properly contrasting colors, and leave the rest alone.

It has been a while (I think ever since Safari introduced Reader Mode), and I do almost all my reading on websites in Reader Mode. For some websites, I have set to “Use Reader Mode when Available,” such as that of paulgraham.com, daringfireball.net, and quite a few others with horrible Typography.

Guess I'll make this a habit and find a similar auto-Reader-Mode feature in Firefox. I like my cursor just the way it is.

Same here. Even this article wasn't that comfortable to read, so had to use Reader Mode.

I don't understand though why reader mode is not always available. The text is there.

> I don't understand though why reader mode is not always available. The text is there.

Mostly because we don't have any standard markup to say "this is the content". Which means reader mode has to guess which tags contain the content, and this whole thing boils down to a pair of regexps[1]

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/08be6b4bdb204dd3...

You can turn it off, there's a little toggle at the bottom of the page.

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