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Comment by mubou | Hacker News Reader

No, I wish I could read it without two unrelated autoplaying videos covering my phone screen, leaving only two or three lines of visible text, followed by a popup to get me to subscribe suddenly appearing while I'm halfway through the article and then another one trying to stop me from closing the tab.

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What's curious for me is how much saner this presentation is than virtually any current online news site, most of which far more resemble picture galleries (with utterly gratuitous images) than information services. The ability, as with the days of print newspapers, to glean the main gist of a story without having to click through, and then ward off cookie, paywall, TOU, nag, autoplay video/audio, dickbars, etc., etc., provides a cognitive ease that's hard to express.

From TFA.

I was making a comment about the current state of news sites, which it's clear from "the fucking article" that you agree with, so I don't understand why you're being rude.

Switching roles in an interaction, if I were responding to someone who'd apparently corrected or misread me, I'd say something like "yeah, that's what I meant" Turning agreement into argument is ... tedious.

My initial response was not only for your benefit but anyone else reading this, which was to point out that the case you are making is actually strongly supported by my webpage reskinning, both in motivation and effect. Simply reading your own initial comment it was less than clear what case you were making.

Hope that helps.

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