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Do y'all know about textise? I don't see mention of it come up in a quick search. https://www.textise.net/
It can be used with the duckduckgo bang **!textise**
It also works over Tor, where I can use it as a proxy to avoid Cloudflare checkpoints.
I don't think that it is open source but not completely sure.
Copy from the site intro:
>Textise is a new way of looking at the Web. It’s an internet tool that removes everything from a web page except for its text. In practice, this means that images, forms, scripts, adverts, they all go, leaving plain text. Find out more here... (https://textise.wordpress.com/about-textise/)
>How to use this page
>1) Type or paste the URL of a web page into the box below and click "Textise". A text only version of the web page will be displayed.
>2) Type a search term into the box, select a search engine from the drop-down list, and click "Search". You will be taken to a text only version of the search results.
Salient point. Dont get me wrong, I use FF reader mode all day long and I sing its praises to all who will listen. But I am using this to access content over Tor when cloudflare would otherwise prevent me from doing so.
I would not recommend for anyone to feed all their browsing to a third party in a way that can easily be tied back to them, but I am using this tool to overcome a specific obstacle when I encounter it and not otherwise.
Maybe I should have described this scenario more completely at the start of my post 🤷