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... far too many Chinese characters to make it easy to decode.
Chinese characters? Piece of cake.
There are two possible approaches to deal with Chinese web pages:
1) Learn Chinese (it takes a bit of your time ;-)
2) Install Google Translate into your web browser and configure it to automatically translate the entire web page, when it is in Simplified or Traditional Chinese. Check also option "hoover over text for the translation". It is a bit foolish translation, but you can easily follow it and improves as time passes.
Honestly, I gave up the approach No. 1 after half an hour, when I discovered how to enter Chinese character combination for "download" into Google.
Implementing the approach No. 2 revealed to me the whole new world of invaluable technical discussions, qualified information and extremely polite friends.
The entire web world (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, ...) thus became my oyster.
Btw, I have registered myself on many Chinese technical discussion forums with my e-mail address and have NEVER received any spam e-mails from these forums.