Lately, I've been enjoying playing around with
greasemonkey/tampermonkey scripts. Here are a couple for
those of you who sometimes want to surf using a modern
browser but without all the bling of the modern web.
Both remove images, video, etc., to a certain extent,
but you still need a decent ad-blocker.


This one makes websites look like they're rendered in a
terminal:

// ==UserScript==
// @name          Terminalize
// @namespace     http://userstyles.org
// @description   The web, terminal style.
// @author        Visiblink
// @include       https://*
// @include       http://*
// @run-at        document-start
// @version       0.1
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {var css = [
 "@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);",
// Remove Visual Media Elements
 "img {display:none !important}",
 "background-image {display:none !important}",
 "video {display:none !important}",
// Monospace Font
 "* {font-family: Courier, monospace !important; color: white !important; background-color: black !important}",
// Grayscale Everything
 "body {filter:grayscale(100%)}"
].join("\n");
if (typeof GM_addStyle != "undefined") {
       GM_addStyle(css);
} else if (typeof PRO_addStyle != "undefined") {
       PRO_addStyle(css);
} else if (typeof addStyle != "undefined") {
       addStyle(css);
} else {
       var node = document.createElement("style");
       node.type = "text/css";
       node.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css));
       var heads = document.getElementsByTagName("head");
       if (heads.length > 0) {
               heads[0].appendChild(node);
       } else {
               // no head yet, stick it whereever
               document.documentElement.appendChild(node);
       }
}
})();


This one makes sites look something like old newspapers:

// ==UserScript==
// @name          Extra!
// @namespace     http://userstyles.org
// @description   Displays websites like old newspapers (grayscale with courier font)
// @author        Visiblink
// @include       https://*
// @include       http://*
// @run-at        document-start
// @version       0.1
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {var css = [
 "@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);",
// Remove Visual Media Elements
 "img {display:none !important}",
 "background-image {display:none !important}",
 "video {display:none !important}",
// Monospace Font
 "* {font-family: Courier, monospace !important;}",
// Grayscale Everything
 "body {filter:grayscale(100%)}"
].join("\n");
if (typeof GM_addStyle != "undefined") {
       GM_addStyle(css);
} else if (typeof PRO_addStyle != "undefined") {
       PRO_addStyle(css);
} else if (typeof addStyle != "undefined") {
       addStyle(css);
} else {
       var node = document.createElement("style");
       node.type = "text/css";
       node.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css));
       var heads = document.getElementsByTagName("head");
       if (heads.length > 0) {
               heads[0].appendChild(node);
       } else {
               // no head yet, stick it whereever
               document.documentElement.appendChild(node);
       }
}
})();


*only the css is mine. The rest of the script is
boilerplate I found somewhere. I suppose this would have
worked as well or better in the Stylish or Stylus
extensions.