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

  • Newsandrumors - An alternative RSS reader and search engine for news and content
  • CNN Lite - A lite version of CNN.com
  • NPR Thin - Text-only version of NPR.org
  • POST Online Media - Breaking world news, latest headlines and stories from POST Online Media.
  • Legible News - Legible news
  • Text News - All of the news, none of the markup. Text only, Gopher only.
  • Text-only News - News aggregator.
  • 68k.news - Headlines from the Future.
  • Jimmyr - A mashup of the best sites on the internet integrated into one page.
  • Newshound - Daily news from around the world.
  • Zaqs - A customizable news aggregator website and search engine.
  • Hvper - The Internet on one page. Successor of Popurls(r).
  • Tildes - A non-profit community site driven by its users’ interests
  • FinURLs -World’s simplest finance and business news aggregator https://www.hvper.com/
  • 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.
  • Allsides - unbiased balanced news
  • Tophub.today - Chinese news aggregator
  • Duomoyu - Chinese news aggregator
  • Wbur - Boston’s NPR News Station
  • Neuters - An alternative front-end to Reuters.com.
  • sumi.news - All the news, RSS, and newsletters on one page.

Social

  • Metafilter - A general-interest community weblog
  • Facebook - Basic mode of Facebook
  • Lobsters - A technology-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion
  • Hacker News1 - A social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.
  • Hacker News2 - This is a simple Hacker News clone, built with Sapper, an application framework for Svelte.
  • 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
  • Txtify - Convert web articles to plain text
  • Darkread.io – This website is very similar to outline.com.
  • Seeres - A Private Search.Engine by Google.
  • Google mirror 1 - A reverser proxy for Google.
  • Google mirror 2 - A reverser proxy for Google.
  • Cliqz - It’s built end-to-end from collecting, crawling, and analyzing data up to actually showing results all this with privacy by design.
  • DevURLs - Read programming news from the most popular programming websites in one place.
  • Wiby.me -A search engine for ‘classic websites’,which’s simple and meets the criteria (not a lot js/css)
  • Swisscows -Swisscows ist die datensichere Google-Alternative. swisscows
  • Runnaroo -A new search engine (runnaroo.com)
  • Yetigogo.com -A news search engine,include the 100 most popular US news sites. Clutter-free and in real-time.
  • Golinxy -A search engine which creates feeds based on multiple input search phrases.

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