HTML differs per platform about monolith HOT 4 CLOSED

I think I have figured it out. My macOS laptop connects to this website directly, from China. But my Linux server does not. This website seems to put a read more button for foreign visitors only. If I force macOS to use proxy, the resulted HTML file also contains this read more button.

Glad to know monolith honors HTTP_PROXY env var, though.

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This is very peculiar... thank you for reporting this (I love puzzles!) Thankfully I have both GNU/Linux and macOS to recreate the scenario, I'll try it now and see what I get.

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After trying to reproduce the behavior, I have to say that I failed to get different outputs from monolith on macOS and GNU/Linux: the document gets saved with the rest of the article hidden on both OSs. I'd like to recommend saving it with the -c flag, that way the page would lose its style, but as a side-effect you'll be able to see all its text (usually works fantastic for articles paywalled via CSS).

To solve the mystery, could you please do diff on both of those versions you get? That could give a good clue on why it's happening.

Thank you once again for the report.

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The diff is rather large.

In case it helps, I've attached all the files. Diff command was diff macos.html linux.html > diff.txt.

diff.txt
html_files.zip

The Linux version of monolith I used can be downloaded from here.

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