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

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Post by mroche »

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.

The prompt comes up from auto detecting an email address/mailto in the link. You should be able to right click and "Copy Email Address".

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

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Post by SamBam »

vivegi wrote: post #11

Tried https://nytimes.com/ to see what I get. The output https://web0.cc/a/rLk0Tnn2K- was not what I expected.

It's designed for reading articles, I wouldn't expect the front page to work well.

Here's an opinion article from the Times, seems to work fine:

https://web0.cc/a/zTHtZFEXci

Suggestion for web0: include the final part of the URL in the new URL, so you can at least make a guess as to what it is. Include a GUID at the end if you need to disambiguate.

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

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Post by web0_cc »

SamBam wrote: post #15
vivegi wrote: post #11

Tried https://nytimes.com/ to see what I get. The output https://web0.cc/a/rLk0Tnn2K- was not what I expected.

It's designed for reading articles, I wouldn't expect the front page to work well. Here's an opinion article from the Times, seems to work fine: https://web0.cc/a/zTHtZFEXci Suggestion for web0: include the final part of the URL in the new URL, so you can at least make a guess as to what it is. Include a GUID at the end if you need to disambiguate.

Thanks for checking the app, SamBam.

Do you mean like this https://web0.cc/a/zTHtZFEXci?url=https://www.nytimes.com/202...

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

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Post by SamBam »

web0_cc wrote: post #17
SamBam wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's designed for reading articles, I wouldn't expect the front page to work well. Here's an opinion article from the Times, seems to work fine: https://web0.cc/a/zTHtZFEXci Suggestion for web0: include the final part of the URL in the new URL, so you can at least make a guess as to what it is. Include a GUID at the end if you need to disambiguate.

Thanks for checking the app, SamBam. Do you mean like this https://web0.cc/a/zTHtZFEXci?url=https://www.nytimes.com/202...

That's good, although anyone can put anything there.

https://web0.cc/a/zTHtZFEXci?url=https://haxx0r.c0m

I was thinking more along the lines of

https://web0.cc/a/opinion/english-literature-study-zTHtZFEXc...

Of course it doesn't actually grant you security.

What if your original link with the `url=` refused to load if the target didn't match the query parameter? That would actually make it secure, no?

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