Much of it is poor web coding with only the latest and greatest being served - ie too clever for their own good, calling for off site resources, and the browser's reader mode [1] is unable to generate or render an easier-to-view output. It's little wonder when the browser's reader mode fails, it more often is down to the hundreds of lines of coding and off site resources for what typically be at most a hundred words of text with some images. Yes sometimes I have to resort to source code to read the text if I need to ... needing to though is a rare thing thankfully.
I am fortunate that my reader mode is basic, black / white, however sometimes the scripts for imagery and graphics is just too much for reader mode to include anything much more than text.
In regard to the very thin wtf fonts - it's not different newer monitors -- it again is down to some too clever arty nonce using something they really really like or just picking a wildly inappropriate thin font so save ink. I've seen the same fonts used in various printed literature - an article in a magazine or some ad blurb - clearly the dolts never understood that the people who read their printed media don't always do so on a well lit display table.
Much of it is poor web coding with only the latest and greatest being served - ie too clever for their own good, calling for off site resources, and the browser's reader mode [1] is unable to generate or render an easier-to-view output. It's little wonder when the browser's reader mode fails, it more often is down to the hundreds of lines of coding and off site resources for what typically be at most a hundred words of text with some images. Yes sometimes I have to resort to source code to read the text if I need to ... needing to though is a rare thing thankfully.
I am fortunate that my reader mode is basic, black / white, however sometimes the scripts for imagery and graphics is just too much for reader mode to include anything much more than text.
In regard to the very thin wtf fonts - it's not different newer monitors -- it again is down to some too clever arty nonce using something they really really like or just picking a wildly inappropriate thin font so save ink. I've seen the same fonts used in various printed literature - an article in a magazine or some ad blurb - clearly the dolts never understood that the people who read their printed media don't always do so on a well lit display table.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47822691/how-do-you-crea...