I find myself gravitating toward the 
links2 browser more and more often 
when I surf the web these days.

Links2 takes me back to web 1.0. I 
just peruse the web. I don't end up 
logging into social media, which 
limits my screen time. Mostly.

The other great aspect of links2 is 
that it renders big, beautiful images 
but not javascript. You might counter 
that I could do that with a regular 
browser, by toggling the javascript 
setting.

But you'd be wrong.

Links2 will render sites without 
javascript that do not work when I use 
Firefox with the "Disable Javascript" 
extension active or with javascript 
toggled off in about:config. Perhaps 
the difference has something to do 
with server responses to different 
user agents.

A good example of this involves 
www.engadget.com. With javascript 
toggled off in Firefox, the site 
renders as a blank page. In links2, it 
renders normally.

The other great asset of links2 
involves online newspaper reading. 
Again, I'm not sure why, but Firefox 
with javascript toggled off is still 
blocked when I pass the 10-article 
limit on my favourite newspapers. Yet 
paywa11s are no match for links2. It's 
your free pass to content heaven. 
Let's keep that to ourselves in the 
gopherverse, huh?

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My 'dark mode' settings for links2: 

1. Click on the top bar to see the 
menu.

2. Set the colour options under View > 
Color:

Text: d0d0d0
Link: 80b6cc
Background: 202020

3. Set the HTML options, under View > 
HTML Options:

User font size: 24
Scale all images by: 100%

4. After making any changes, you need 
to go to View > Save HTML Options