This is, of course, an exaggeration of the both of them. Each has its own use case in which it performs better than the alternative. In truth, I use ubo as much as I use reader view :)

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    Ublock is down there in the trenches battling face to face with the ads for our sake and you dare to insult them? Reader view would be disappointed in you.

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      Sometimes

      But damn do more people need actual subtitles rather than the basic speech to text version, shit’s rough man

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        The speech to text is basically perfect, the problem is YouTube’s choice to have to presented in the awful way they do. If they just looked like regular subtitles, I’d leave them on.

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      Don’t you? I always watch movies and play games with subtitles as well. Granted, English isn’t my native language. I would not do that in my native language.

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    Yo I didn’t know reader view existed what. That’s amazing thank you.

    However, I’ve never encountered any problems with unmodified ublock, worked perfectly out of the box for me. On the rare case that I come across a website that wants me to disable my adblocker I simply do not care enough about whatever is on that website to do so.

    (Edit)

    Alright so I tried it on a few websites and got a “cannot complete request” page as well as “Additional information about this problem or error is currently unavailable.” Pressing try again did not help

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    BTW Firefox has a built-in function that checks if the extractable text from the website is “acceptable” and will decide whether to display the button.

    You can trigger it everywhere using

    about:reader?url=https%3A%2F%2F[...]
    

    You can use another trick: bookmark about:reader?url=%s and add read as its keyword (only in Properties window, separate from “tags”). Then put read in front of any URL you want to view with Reader Mode!

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      The worst part about NoScript is gradually learning just how extreme the script situation has become. Today’s web won’t be archived nearly as well as Web 1.0 was. It’s only gotten more hostile to people with disabilities.

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    Reader mode is just regular Chad, me with my RSS reader with built in reader mode is the real Giga Chad

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    You forgot the key weakness of read mode: its dark mode is not real black (#000000), but dark grey. The difference is staggering with OLED screens.

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    The sad thing is that well made websites can be a beautiful thing. But with the amount of ads they ruin that experience. And by enabling read mode all that website design that came up in the last year’s is gone again

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      It is possible to have a well designed website with ads. Unfortunately, once you start using analytics, you can figure out how to “tweak” your design to increase engagement with ads, thereby increasing revenue.

      Before long, your well designed website is a crappy website because that brings in the bacon.

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    Reader view is also a god send if you have ADHD or just struggle with attention span around electronics.

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    Absolutely. My browser defaults to reader view, but I wish it was more compatible.