[erickhill]

Great read. But I honestly had to read it while awkwardly covering up parts of my browser window. Some of those large animated GIFs are super distracting.

[ANTSANTS]

The New Web Experience — Firing up your web inspector and adding "visibility: hidden" to half a dozen things before you can read the damn article.

[sp332]

There's an extension for that. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-it-per...

[Houshalter]

Am I the only one who liked them? I've never played the game so it's nice to see what it looks like and not just a static screenshot.

[gaius]

I played it just a couple of days ago - on original Atari 800 hardware :-)

[Houshalter]

Apparently it's on Youtube now. Pause a video, click outside of it, and type 1980.

[lostlogin]

It's unusual to say this, but reading it on an iPhone is nice...

[nether]

Or Instapaper, Readibility etc.

[jnbiche]

If you have AdBlock, it's fairly simple to block the distracting images by clicking on them. Otherwise, you can inject a little CSS into the page using JavaScript on the console. I agree that the GIFs were very distracting. Static GIFs probably could have captured the feel of the game era just as well.

[UnFleshedOne]

Get a browser with "show images" toggle of some sort and disable it (opera before 15 has one, and I'm sure others can get something similar as an extension). Your only problems would then be videos and super large fonts on headers.

[gsands]

Quick fix to hide images- paste this into your console: for(var i = 0; i < document.querySelectorAll('img').length;i++) { document.querySelectorAll('img')[i].style.display='none'; }

[atsaloli]

Try Readability - http://www.readability.com/

I press a hotkey and my browser loads a page with just the relevant text, no distractions.

[alan_cx]

That page is as terrible to look at as it is totally appropriate to the article. Gotta respect that at least.

[colmvp]

Hardly.