Sadly this is the wrong solution: proper solution is to create generic "get to the base information" solutions to get past all dark pattern bullshit.
Trusting advertisers, web developers under coercion, annoying paywall based sites has been proven to be a bad choice over and over in history repeating itself hellscape.
Firefox's "reader view" was the right idea, that doesn't quite go far enough. We need options like "i just want text, non ad pictures, and original videos".
Any higher layers where we allow these brutal dark patterns are too much work to track and fix every little thing they can do with code
> We need options like "i just want text, non ad pictures, and original videos".
That's called an ad blocker.
This is touching on the larger battle for control over user experience, that has been going on since the birth of the WWW.
Most of the sites want you to see everything other than "text, non ad pictures, and original videos" - the latter is a bait and a vector to expose you to ads, dark patterns, and other marketing shenanigans. They'd serve you their page as a PDF if they could get away with. They almost did get away with Flash. They do get away with this with mobile apps. About the only thing stopping them from replacing websites with some ungodly mix of canvas, WebAssembly, and React-like frameworks, is accessibility[0].
Point I'm making is, it's not a PvE game, it's a PvP one. A beefed up Reader Mode is not a solution - try to build one, and half the industry will cry foul, and proceed to invent workarounds. The Web, as we know it today, is funded by the enemy.
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[0] - specifically, the legal requirements in some scenarios and jurisdictions, which create a sort of back pressure on the industry that keeps the web from full-blown appification.
Trusting advertisers, web developers under coercion, annoying paywall based sites has been proven to be a bad choice over and over in history repeating itself hellscape.
Firefox's "reader view" was the right idea, that doesn't quite go far enough. We need options like "i just want text, non ad pictures, and original videos".
Any higher layers where we allow these brutal dark patterns are too much work to track and fix every little thing they can do with code