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
- 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.
- 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.
Why use this over Reading Mode?
My use case is to access text and link content on a web page anonymously over Tor without getting blocked by Cloudflare.
Quite elaborate, but fair enough
I don’t think all websites supports read mode.
Good point. Though I have to say, I’m not a fan of what uBlock Origin shows me when visiting Textise
I prefer Tranquility Reader add-on (no need for a 3rd party service). Firefox’ native Reader Mod is not compatible with addons, like translation ones. Tranquility Reader is a bit more configurable too, but that’s just an extra.
Does the new natively integrated translation feature work with it?
Update: The native local translation is indeed compatible with Tranquility Reader add-on. They work with both combinations of:
- First translate the page, then enable Tranquility mode
- First enable Tranquility mode, then translate the page
See screenshot
Good to know, that’s pretty cool then
EDIT-2: It works
EDIT: I was wrong, as pointed below, it’s a core feature: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation
If you mean the official addon Firefox Translations (AFAIK there is no real native translation on FF, but let me know if I’m wrong), I just did a quick test and it seems to work.See screenshot
Version 118 integrated translations based on this exact addon, I believe. Same project behind it, Bergamot
Also why does Android not have this? I keep going to press it and nothing’s there
Just tried it in Firefox for Android and it worked for me.
https://Lemmy.world !textiseopened up to
https://www.textise.net/showText.aspx?strURL=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2F
That could be very useful when using a text-based web browser (e.g. TUI)
