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amelius on Feb 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible ...

Solution: a browser plugin that converts the website to a PNG, segments it, runs OCR on it, and presents it to the user.

Note: the plugin could do this on a server, for the additional benefit of smaller bandwidth use.

pmlnr on Feb 4, 2019 [–]

So Opera Mini?

amelius on Feb 4, 2019 | [–]

Could be. I don't know how well it implements these concepts, and it seems it only supports mobile phones.

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