Love both of them. CNN has become a bit "left-leaning Fox News" for my taste, though.

If Al Jazeera or BBC had a similar text only site, that would be best. I really love the different perspectives.

I mostly use brutalist.report to find the articles, then deal with them on a case by case basis.

I also love https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news

They also compress the hell out of the images, so it all loads shockingly well on poor connections.

Ahh, I love them. The fact that they are fast, give you the exact thing you are looking for without any other noise is just amazing!

https://lite.cnn.com seems to load 200KB of CSS

I’m honestly dumbfounded that these exist

In the past some site had light versions, but I haven’t come across one in over 10 years

Makes me wonder if this isn’t just some rogue employee maintaining this without anyone else realizing it

It’s the light version, but ironically I would happily pay these ad networks a monthly $20 to just serve these lite pages and not track me. They don’t make anywhere close to that from me in a year

Sadly, here’s how it would go: they’d do it, it be successful, they’d ipo, after a few years they’d need growth, they’d introduce a new tier with ads, and eventually you’d somehow wind up watching ads again