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Ask HN: Is there a outline-like tool that works like pi hole?

1 points by Havoc ↗ HN
pi hole is great but lately I feel it's no longer enough.

Articles are becoming downright reader hostile. Half the page is covered by a cookie message and the a subscribe to newsletter overlay on top of that. And then when you scroll down a bit more another overlay pops up. It's a miserable UX experience.

Is there some sort of service / software / MITM to filter this out or make it more bearable?

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gshdg
Reader mode?
ggm
So a reader-hole or pi-reader which "readerifies" urls on a blacklist?
gshdg
I mean most browsers now have a “reader mode” that gives you a content-only view of an article.
ggm
I just meant taking reader mode in a browser, and implementing it as a prefetch by selenium or some similar browser logic to serve onward, through a whitelist: if you ask for full content it remembers and doesn't do it.

I use reader mode, what would be nice would be to have it sticky by site with a control panel. That's what a device on a pi could do, while it does adblock and DNS privacy.

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