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I've recently re-discovered firefox, and have fallen in love with Reader View, but I'm noticing a few problems. Most pages with articles will work just fine, but some refuse to allow reader view, and when you force those pages into reader view it doesn't display the appropriate content.

In today's issue, the website is just happy to allow me to view it in a readable format, but only if I want to read privacy and cookie garbage. How can I select the portion of the page I want to actually read, and tell firefox to ignore whatever bullshit I'm "supposed" to see or whatever?

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Relevant url: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-michigan-city-put-alert-after-wsj-opinion-piece-2024-02-04/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Reader View is working for me with that website. The only issue is that it writes out the phrase "link opens in New tab" after every link.

Do you have cookie settings or extensions that might be interfering with something?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I think the only extension that does anything with a sites content is UBO. I could try that I guess? Edit: Goddamnit, yes that did it. I'm so not turning off my adblocker for their fluffpieces. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There are annoyance filters in ubo that are not turned on by default that filter out cookie banners. Don't turn off ubo, turn on more ubo. That link opened fine for me in reader mode with ubo and all of the annoyance filters enabled. Ubo dashboard> filter lists tab

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