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Having the blog post outside Medium doesn't guarantee them all looking better. On the other side, it is easier to fix one site using custom CSS than it is to fix a bunch.

An on the other other side Firefox's reading mode makes this whole discussion irrelevant.

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> An on the other other side Firefox's reading mode makes this whole discussion irrelevant.

It really doesn't. It doesn't fix it for non-firefox and non-power users.

I was starting to think I was the only one with this opinion.

The "Shitty design is fine because I personally know a way to get around it" school of thought never made sense to me.

Chrome is the only mainstream browser without a decent reading mode these days — because doesn’t want people hiding advertisements. One of the reasons I prefer not to use it.

And enabling reader mode doesn’t need any power user skills, does it?

> Chrome is the only mainstream browser

It "only" has 70%+ of the browser market share, and growing.

Safari also has a reading mode. I would be shocked if Chrome and Edge didn't as well.

Edge does, Chrome doesn't.

Funnily enough, Chrome has a reader mode on Android but not in the desktop version. At the same time Chrome Desktop has add-ons, Chrome Android doesn't.

You can get high mileage from a fairly small set of stylesheets, though yes, you do have a point.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hFzKwoir...

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