What About A Plain Text Web

The article explores the concept of text-mode browsing as a solution to web bloat, describing a new feature by Earthly that converts web pages into plain text using an AWS Lambda function combined with the Mozilla Readability library and Lynx browser. This feature caters to users who primarily consume text and have limited internet connectivity, allowing them to access content without the overhead of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The author reflects on the inefficiency of modern web pages for simple text reading and shares the technical process behind the tool, highlighting its potential benefits for users with slower internet speeds. While the project is a proof of concept and not yet optimized for speed or caching, it offers a trade-off between reduced features and lower bandwidth usage, with future plans to open-source the code.

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