I wish one of these projects would make a browser which only renders text (so texts and links) and no additional support for media (images, videos, audio etc).
I know there is Lynx but having a non-terminal based browser which could do it would be cool.
You might be interested in Richard Stallman's method of browsing the web:
> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it. [0]
I know you wanted something other than lynx, but you could do this with EWW (Emacs web browser or any graphical browser, provided that your proxy wget dropped the images.
[0] https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
Wow. At a certain level, I'm glad that people so peculiar exist.
Something like Dillo? (You can disable image rendering in Dillo).
For distraction-free reading?
Something like Reader View in safari / firefox?
Those show media.
Then google will use text to show ads.
Isn't Ubuntu doing that for at least 3 years or so in terminal during system update?
Text based ads would be less distracting.
Not if they're inline and you've read an ad before you realized it. Like a YouTube sponsor segment. lol
Fair. However, text based ads are also very easy to filter out using some sort of extension no?
Yeah, I actually use NordVPN (this comment’s sponsor) for this.
Remembering when Google only served text based ads.
Cool idea!