[MaxBarraclough]

Firefox reader mode works ok for me. Chromium tells me there was 2.5mB of downstream traffic to load the page, rising to 4.3 if I scroll to the Recommended from Medium spam at the bottom of the page. That would be appalling if the bar weren't so low.

I'm reminded of The Website Obesity Crisis, [0] where the author mentions reading an article about web bloat, then noticing that page was not exactly a shining example of lightweight design. He even calls out Medium specifically.

[0] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm , discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34466910

[garbuhj]

On an Android chrome based browser when you open a webpage that's able to be viewed in the accessibility simplified view, it pops up a dialog asking if you want to use simplified view. On non-accessible pages (like this one) that dialog box doesn't appear