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Show HN: Web0.cc – Generate clutter, ad and tracker free article pages to share

#1

Post by web0_cc » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 1:55 PM UTC

I recently observed that majority of my family members and friends are not using ad blockers and reader mode for reasons suck as lack of knowledge about plugins & laziness.

So their online reading experience is not pleasant as a result very less amount of them read anything including what i share.

Its an attempt to give them clutter, tracker & ad free reading experience right off the bat.

Show HN: Web0.cc – Generate clutter, ad and tracker free article pages to share
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#2

Post by junon » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 4:32 PM UTC

Tried to load in a Yahoo article. After waiting about 30 seconds I hit the refresh button and it said "failed after 1 attempts" or some such. I went to click "report a problem" and the Email client prompt showed up (I don't have a desktop email client), so I'm afraid I couldn't report feedback.

Just some feedback for you here, instead.

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#3

Post by prophesi » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 4:54 PM UTC

Nice domain name! It'd be cool to leverage archive.md as well to help bypass pay walls. I tried it on a First Things link and it was only able to grab the first two paragraphs.

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#4

Post by realshadow » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:03 PM UTC

web0- Zero ads, Zero trackers & Zero Clutter. Awesome.

I think this is a good tool to share articles with not tech savy parents who cant distinguish between ads and real content.

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#5

Post by ignoramous » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:12 PM UTC

I use archive.is because it removes ads, cookie banners, and doesn't execute archived webapage's javascript.

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#6

Post by dgeiser13 » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:13 PM UTC

Does this also remove paywalls? Either intentionally or unintentionally?

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#7

Post by web0_cc » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:13 PM UTC

junon wrote: post #2

Tried to load in a Yahoo article. After waiting about 30 seconds I hit the refresh button and it said "failed after 1 attempts" or some such. I went to click "report a problem" and the Email client prompt showed up (I don't have a desktop email client), so I'm afraid I couldn't report feedback. Just some feedback for you here, instead.

Thanks for giving it a try. Sure i will look into it.

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#8

Post by web0_cc » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:27 PM UTC

dgeiser13 wrote: post #6

Does this also remove paywalls? Either intentionally or unintentionally?

unfortunately, No it can't.

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#9

Post by eevahr » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:48 PM UTC

Is the source code available anywhere?

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#10

Post by web0_cc » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:49 PM UTC

prophesi wrote: post #3

Nice domain name! It'd be cool to leverage archive.md as well to help bypass pay walls. I tried it on a First Things link and it was only able to grab the first two paragraphs.

Mozilla's readability library does the heavy lifting behind the scenes. Its an amazing library but it fails to support some sites.

I will definitely try to improve the library or find another way to support the mentioned website.

Thanks for the feedback.