You most certainly can! It's just not something that's supported in a lot of clients. IIRC you can do it in for example ThunderHub :)

Edit: it's even available in Zeus under the "Payment Settings" option. Default maximum is 100 sats / 0.5%

Yeah that's true, I was a little busy while reading it so I didn't pay much attention. I think the article I linked is still relevant for OP to understand routing fees, but we currently don't have a way to choose fees as the spender, no

Obviously he's looking at this from the perspective of a person looking to pay, not as a node operator.  You can't pick out a zero fee router for you particular payment.

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LN has 2 fee types, a % fee and a base fee. It 

 customizable, the routing node decides both of them. They can both be set to 0 if the router wants it that way. Here's a cool article about this: 

https://medium.com/suredbits/lightning-101-lightning-network-fees-86abbbc17024

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LN has 2 fee types, a % fee and a base fee. It *is* customizable, the routing node decides both of them. They can both be set to 0 if the router wants it that way. Here's a cool article about this: https://medium.com/suredbits/lightning-101-lightning-network-fees-86abbbc17024