Do you know any service that does that? Right now I have reached 5GB of my phone contract and I have to navigate with a very low speed. I was thinking to write a simple service that takes the URL as request and sends back the page but in read mode or in a very minimal way keeping focus only on the content. But I want to check if a service like this already exists.
This is a popular choice in the sailing community. May not work for everything though.
What a cool service.
Nice. It’s not exactly what I had in mind, though. Thanks for sharing.
Firefox has a reader mode, it would be really cool if you could turn it on and have it actually follow links with it still turned on, and browse the web that way. I wonder why it’s not possible? I suppose because it’s not enabled for just any website, but still it would be nice if there was a way to make it “default”.
At the end I wrote my own little “search engine” to do that. Still buggy and not super fast, but it does what I need and I can now navigate also wit a bad connection https://blaze.cyclic.app
EDIT: I just realized I’m in programming, whoops! This is more of general tech advice, because I’m guessing you’re looking for an actual service that you can integrate with.
This reminds me of Opera Mini way back then in the Symbian / Windows Mobile era before the iPhone. It worked by basically rendering sites on Opera’s servers and heavily compressing the content before it reaches your phone, making it far easier to navigate and with minimal data use.
Opera Mini still exists today, but I’m not sure about the data usage since sites nowadays are more dynamic and I’m sure they had to adjust their process to adapt to that.
If you’re considering it, please note that you’re effectively trusting your browser sessions with Opera, since it’s a proxy browser. Use it as if you’re incognito, and don’t login.