Show HN: Scroll – Search or share articles with clean view
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#2Hi,
I just launched an online service called Scroll.
* Scroll can turn news website into a clean HTML view.
* You don't have to share a URL with fullscreen ads anymore. You can share the readable article URL by Scroll.
* You can search articles. Every link is clutter-free just before you read. Your battery will thank you.
* It's mobile optimized.
* No Sign Up required.
Re: Show HN: Scroll – Search or share articles with clean view
#3Tried this article as a test, only got a portion of it:
http://us.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/north-korea-the-inte...
Re: Show HN: Scroll – Search or share articles with clean view
#4Tried this article as a test, only got a portion of it: http://us.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/north-korea-the-inte...
Thanks for the feedback. I Just figure out a possible reason and will fix soon.
Re: Show HN: Scroll – Search or share articles with clean view
#5Hi, I just launched an online service called Scroll. * Scroll can turn news website into a clean HTML view. * You don't have to share a URL with fullscreen ads anymore. You can share the readable article URL by Scroll. * You can search articles. Every link is clutter-free just before you read. Your battery will thank you. * It's mobile optimized. * No Sign Up required. I would love any and all feedback. Be harsh, be…
Legalities?
Re: Show HN: Scroll – Search or share articles with clean view
#6Hi, I just launched an online service called Scroll. * Scroll can turn news website into a clean HTML view. * You don't have to share a URL with fullscreen ads anymore. You can share the readable article URL by Scroll. * You can search articles. Every link is clutter-free just before you read. Your battery will thank you. * It's mobile optimized. * No Sign Up required. I would love any and all feedback. Be harsh, be…
Legalities?
Honestly, I don't know yet. Since there are already some pioneer like Instapaper and Readability. I believe everything will be fine.
( Am I ? )
Re: Show HN: Scroll – Search or share articles with clean view
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Legalities?
Honestly, I don't know yet. Since there are already some pioneer like Instapaper and Readability. I believe everything will be fine. ( Am I ? )
I'm not a lawyer, but unless the publisher agree, you're probably not fine. IIRC, Instapaper and readability run on the client. They don't reproduce the complete article on the server.
I'd also argue that you're in a morally murky area. Call me old-fashioned (and give me one while you're at it), but I respect these journalists and the people that pay them.
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#8Wow ! what an amazing app.
You should make it into a chrome/firefox plugin which allows me to keep a blacklist of sites that will be redirected from your site whenever I go to them. ( like the economist,bbc,forbes,vice,atlantic,etc )
Again, great work !
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#9Seems not very legal...
I am sure this is illegal in Europe. There are strict rules for how much one can use from another website (limited number of words plus max size one image).
Google News complies to these rules (without adding its own ads) and still many publishers are battling it... Google News has stopped in Spain last week because it has to pay the publishers starting Jan 1st.
Excerpt of Terms of Service of nytimes.com (just as an example, every publisher has something similar):
2.2 The Services and Contents are protected by copyright pursuant to U.S. and international copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce (except as provided in Section 2.3 of these Terms of Service), create new works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the Content or the Services (including software) in whole or in part.
2.3 You may download or copy the Content and other downloadable items displayed on the Services for personal use only, provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained therein. Copying or storing of any Content for other than personal use is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from The New York Times Rights and Permissions Department, or the copyright holder identified in the copyright notice contained in the Content.
Re: Show HN: Scroll – Search or share articles with clean view
#10Hi, I just launched an online service called Scroll. * Scroll can turn news website into a clean HTML view. * You don't have to share a URL with fullscreen ads anymore. You can share the readable article URL by Scroll. * You can search articles. Every link is clutter-free just before you read. Your battery will thank you. * It's mobile optimized. * No Sign Up required. I would love any and all feedback. Be harsh, be…
I clicked on random link ( https://getscroll.com/r/vl25i ), got this http://i.imgur.com/PwpUs0y.jpg (notice formatting)
