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Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

#11

Post by catchmeifyoucan »

Digging this UI. It's actually really beautiful compared to regular ol' reader mode. The UI is nice, and it's a cool touch to see social comments. Nice work!

I love that you also opened source it! Which is a huge win.

It might also be nice to "auto-activate", so people don't forget it's running. Right now, I have to click the extension to run it.

If it could pass paywalls, I'd probably pay ("donate" might be a better term).

Any chance you could bring it to iOS as an extension? A lot of my reading is also happening on phone

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

#12

Post by morsch »

Naturally this required the "Access your data for all web sites" permission -- most powerful/useful extensions need this permission. But I've been pretty conservative in adding extensions with it (as in, just two, including the obligatory UBO).

Why isn't there a permission where the add-on doesn't get to access anything until I activate it for a specific tab, and then it only gets to access to that specific tab? Unclutter would be most useful on websites where I'm not particularly worried about misuse, but I don't want it to be able to read my emails.

This is not meant as a dig at this add-on or its author, I have no reason to believe he's not trustworthy, I think it's a limitation of the add-on permission model.

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

#14

Post by sabellito »

enriquto wrote: post #13

> The extension has about 400 active weekly users right now, How do you know that? It sounds a bit scary that you are able to know this number.

I have an addon published for Firefox and they provide usage stats, which includes Daily Active Users, despite the addon itself having no tracking at all.

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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Post by simcop2387 »

morsch wrote: post #12

Naturally this required the "Access your data for all web sites" permission -- most powerful/useful extensions need this permission. But I've been pretty conservative in adding extensions with it (as in, just two, including the obligatory UBO). Why isn't there a permission where the add-on doesn't get to access anything until I activate it for a specific tab, and then it only gets to access to that specific tab? Uncl…

I'd also love it if there was one that allowed for additional sandboxing. i.e. it can read anything but can never store or talk to the network or cause a network call to happen. I know that'd be harder to do but it'd also allow for a lot of nice add-ons to be made.

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

#16

Post by lioeters »

enriquto wrote: post #13

> The extension has about 400 active weekly users right now, How do you know that? It sounds a bit scary that you are able to know this number.

I was also skeptical at first, but the code is open source, and there's clear documentation on privacy policy and metrics collected.

https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/metri...

Bravo to the author, well done for earning the users' trust.

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

#18

Post by leipert »

phgn wrote: post #8
hnthrow10282910 wrote: post #7

Might just be me, but the example photos (not the first two) don’t load on the landing page

Do you mean the example videos with the text next to them? Or the 2 rows of images at the very bottom of the page? They are .webm and .webp. Which browser & browser version are you using?

Not the parent, but Safari on iOS. https://caniuse.com/webm

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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Post by phgn »

lioeters wrote: post #16
enriquto wrote: post #13

> The extension has about 400 active weekly users right now, How do you know that? It sounds a bit scary that you are able to know this number.

I was also skeptical at first, but the code is open source, and there's clear documentation on privacy policy and metrics collected. https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/metri... Bravo to the author, well done for earning the users' trust.

Yep there is usage reporting (which features people use), but it never includes the sites or domains you visit. Beyond the project being open-source, it's also bundled so the production code is a readable as possible for you to verify this.

Honestly the extension would not exist in its current form without this. Looking at the usage after releasing a feature is incredibly helpful to see if something is working.

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

#20

Post by cxr »

morsch wrote: post #12

Naturally this required the "Access your data for all web sites" permission -- most powerful/useful extensions need this permission. But I've been pretty conservative in adding extensions with it (as in, just two, including the obligatory UBO). Why isn't there a permission where the add-on doesn't get to access anything until I activate it for a specific tab, and then it only gets to access to that specific tab? Uncl…

"Access your data[...] for a specific tab" basically describes what a bookmarklet does (where by "specific tab", you mean "a given page—the one loaded in the focused tab when you activate the bookmarklet").
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