Read the news without using up all of your bandwidth. A wide variety of sites offer text-only versions that work on any computer , but they’re occasionally buried and hard to find on the modern web.
There are more than a few reasons to want to know where these sites are, however. Maybe you don’t like clutter? Maybe you’re one of the millions still using dial-up, and want a low-bandwidth way to read news? Maybe you regularly tether your computer to your smartphone, but don’t have an unlimited data plan? Maybe you like to read the news on your e-reader and want clean sites for doing so? Or maybe you want a list of quick-to-load news sources in case a disaster slows down your Internet connection just when you need it most.
Whatever your reason, find a list of links to mobile news sites that work on any computer below, without the need for tricks like user agent switchers.
Contents
News
- CNN Lite - A lite version of CNN.com
- NPR Thin - Text-only version of NPR.org
- Newshound - Daily news from around the world
- Zaqs - A customizable news aggregator website and search engine. We currently index over 100 mainstream news websites.
- Tildes - A non-profit community site driven by its users’ interests
- FinURLs -World’s simplest finance and business news aggregator
- Readspike - A news aggregator
- AllTop - AllTop’s Most Popular Sites around the Internet
- SkimFeed - Tech News aggregator
- LevelNews - Independent news index
- Sydney Morning Herald - Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world
- Reuters - A lite version of reuters.com with a toggle button to switch of photos
- Techdirt Lite - Text-only version of techdirt.com
- The Christian Science Monitor - Text-Only Edition.Beautifully formated for reading; no images at all.
- Tophub.today - Chinese news aggregator
- Duomoyu - Chinese news aggregator
Social
- Metafilter - A general-interest community weblog
- Facebook - Basic mode of Facebook
- Lobsters - A technology-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion
- Hacker News - A social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.
- Reddit - Reddit .compact view
- Twitter - A faster, data friendly way to use Twitter
- Medium - A place to read and write big ideas and important stories
Other
- SlateStarCodex - Endlessly interesting and thought provoking.
- Weather - Tthe right way to check the weather.
- Wikipedia - A free online encyclopedia with the aim to allow anyone to edit articles
- DuckDuckGo - A lite version of duckduckgo.com
- Qwant - The search engine that respects your privacy
- Searx - The search engine that respects your privacy
- Outline - A free service that removes clutter from websites.
- Seeres - A Private Search.Engine by Google.
- DevURLs - Read programming news from the most popular programming websites in one place.