It’s hard to beat https://lite.cnn.com and https://text.npr.org (I imagine their own employees likely use these as well) or https://newsminimalist.com
It’s hard to beat https://lite.cnn.com and https://text.npr.org (I imagine their own employees likely use these as well) or https://newsminimalist.com
I’m honestly dumbfounded that these exist
In the past some site had light versions, but I haven’t come across one in over 10 years
Makes me wonder if this isn’t just some rogue employee maintaining this without anyone else realizing it
It’s the light version, but ironically I would happily pay these ad networks a monthly $20 to just serve these lite pages and not track me. They don’t make anywhere close to that from me in a year
Sadly, here’s how it would go: they’d do it, it be successful, they’d ipo, after a few years they’d need growth, they’d introduce a new tier with ads, and eventually you’d somehow wind up watching ads again
a lot of these are internal tools that they just haven't disabled access to for whatever reason. old.reddit still exists for whatever reason.
That's only a matter of time until they kill it. i.reddit.com is already dead.
Love both of them. CNN has become a bit "left-leaning Fox News" for my taste, though.
If Al Jazeera or BBC had a similar text only site, that would be best. I really love the different perspectives.
I mostly use brutalist.report to find the articles, then deal with them on a case by case basis.
> CNN has become a bit "left-leaning Fox News" for my taste, though.
Don't worry, it'll be just like the real Fox news after the Paramount merger.
At least the BBC has RSS feeds for its stories, which avoids having to go through the dire news front page.
Most news sites have RSS feeds. CNN is the major exception.
https://lite.cnn.com seems to load 200KB of CSS
Comes to about 2MB for me, which seems to be because they've added the EU cookie policy compliance bloat (probably from a third-party). Once that's agreed to via cookies the page is 47KB.
27KB of CSS for me, but only if I switch off uBO. Otherwise, there's no CSS. I think the CSS is just for the cookie popup styling.
Cannot reproduce on my machine
200KB uncompressed*
You can download the homepage html see the style block.
similar for me. homepage: 47.25 kB transferred with articles averaging ~70kB with ublock origin having refreshingly zero impact.
I also love https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news
They also compress the hell out of the images, so it all loads shockingly well on poor connections.
Ahh, I love them. The fact that they are fast, give you the exact thing you are looking for without any other noise is just amazing!