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[–] dsilverz 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

One could also use w3m or links. All the RAM-hungry things (such as CSS3, JavaScript APIs and heavy multimedia files) will be finally gone for good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But all the ads will come back, so it's a wash

[–] dsilverz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Considering that the vast majority of the modern ads are videos or images, they won't show up in such text-browser environments. Also, they depend on JavaScript, which isn't available through such text-browser environments.

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