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.

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[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's a service.

It's a service given to you for free by a company with no apparant way of generating income.

Would you think about that, please?

[–] deleted@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You’re the product.

To be fair, some developers do it for fun and it costs next to nothing to host it. If it blows up, devs might start to monetize it.

[–] SmoochyPit@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

They do offer paid commercial services for webmasters. A lot of the mission seems to focus on accessibility. As of 2013, the State of Oregon was one such client.

I don’t think it’s suspicious.

[–] Flynn_Mandrake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like Firefox text mode with extra steps. Granted, it might be good for other browsers, but I personally am doing fine so far with a reader plugin on Palemoon.

Also, as other users have mentioned already, it's sus as heck.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

Safari has reader mode (mobile and desktop) and it’s the best way to read most news and recipe sites. Except the ones doing stupid shit to obfuscate it anyways.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh, by the way, text-only browsers are still a thing.

You might want to look at links and/or lynx and see if they cover your usecase.

[–] Cinner@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was just thinking... "this isn't new, this is 2 decades old and called lynx " lol

edit: over 3 decades. the first version of lynx was released in 1992.

I've used it on Linux but I'm sure it can be used on Windows via WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 6 points 2 years ago

The oldest browser still being maintained, in fact.

[–] Crul@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I prefer Tranquility Reader add-on (no need for a 3rd party service). Very similar to Firefox' native Reader Mode, but more configurable and compatible with other addons (like translation).

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 2 years ago

Would recommend you put your voice here: https://github.com/ushnisha/tranquility-reader-webextensions/issues/46

Looks like some corporate data shill wanting to put ad trackers in. FOSS plugins do this for money sometimes, but it's baaaad.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

I like it, but I would prefer a local program to do this, or something like a userscript... ik firefox readermode does this but i use seamonkey and don't have this kind of thing, so I only disable image and javascript (css when needed) which kinda gives me a broken layout

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does this have to do with piracy?

[–] syzizeky@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My use case is to access text and link content on a web page anonymously over Tor without getting blocked by Cloudflare (such as when browsing warez sites).

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago

Group of Bookmarklets called zap.