Firefox reader mode works ok for me. Chromium tells me there was 2.5mB of downstream traffic to load the page, rising to 4.3 if I scroll to the Recommended from Medium spam at the bottom of the page. That would be appalling if the bar weren't so low.
I'm reminded of The Website Obesity Crisis, [0] where the author mentions reading an article about web bloat, then noticing that page was not exactly a shining example of lightweight design. He even calls out Medium specifically.
On an Android chrome based browser when you open a webpage that's able to be viewed in the accessibility simplified view, it pops up a dialog asking if you want to use simplified view. On non-accessible pages (like this one) that dialog box doesn't appear
Firefox reader mode works ok for me. Chromium tells me there was 2.5mB of downstream traffic to load the page, rising to 4.3 if I scroll to the Recommended from Medium spam at the bottom of the page. That would be appalling if the bar weren't so low.
I'm reminded of The Website Obesity Crisis, [0] where the author mentions reading an article about web bloat, then noticing that page was not exactly a shining example of lightweight design. He even calls out Medium specifically.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34466910
On an Android chrome based browser when you open a webpage that's able to be viewed in the accessibility simplified view, it pops up a dialog asking if you want to use simplified view. On non-accessible pages (like this one) that dialog box doesn't appear