CNN has really pissed me off the past few years, not because of their reporting, which I love. But with their insane in-your-face ads and auto play vids, scroll-jacking, clickbaity links to cheesy spammy sites, etc.
A terrible web interface to what is otherwise top-end journalism.
I've been using http://lite.cnn.com for quite a long time now. I think it's the same site as cnn.io, as they do look identical.
Keep in mind that they don't show all of their articles. So you miss a lot if you only go to the text-only pages.
BUT if you care to notice the URL, it's very easy to convert a graphical site link to a text-only one. The fact that there isn't already a plugin to do it automagically is a surprise to me.
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[ 54.6 ms ] story [ 413 ms ] thread1) It can freeze up for days at a time with no new material.
2) Some articles make heavy references in the text to the images that you cannot see!
CNN has really pissed me off the past few years, not because of their reporting, which I love. But with their insane in-your-face ads and auto play vids, scroll-jacking, clickbaity links to cheesy spammy sites, etc.
A terrible web interface to what is otherwise top-end journalism.
Keep in mind that they don't show all of their articles. So you miss a lot if you only go to the text-only pages.
BUT if you care to notice the URL, it's very easy to convert a graphical site link to a text-only one. The fact that there isn't already a plugin to do it automagically is a surprise to me.