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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 carapace »

dmje wrote: post #19

I saw "generate clutter..." in the title and thought "why would I want to generate clutter?" I know it's a minor point but I'd go "Remove clutter, ads and trackers from any article" for a stronger initial proposition.

> Generate clutter-, ad-, and tracker-free article pages to share

I miss hyphens.

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

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Post by a2128 »

steren wrote: post #14

Why isn't this achieved client side?

It can be, Firefox and some other browsers have a built-in reader view. This website is useful regardless for sharing articles with people who don't know about reader view or whose browsers don't support it

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Post by nmstoker »

Nice. How about creating a bookmarklet to make it super easy to share a web0.cc link from the current page?

Then people don't need to copy the url, go to web0.cc, paste it and submit.

Also maybe if the refresh can be reliably done after a few seconds then you could make the page refresh itself automatically (it's not difficult for the user but it's one less thing to handle). You could tweak the refresh time by how busy your site is.

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Post by kevincox »

steren wrote: post #14

Why isn't this achieved client side?

CORS makes this difficult. For non-CORS enabled sites you would need to use a server-side proxy. But at that point why not do the filtering on the server to avoid transferring unnecessary data?

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Post by codetrotter »

dmje wrote: post #19

I saw "generate clutter..." in the title and thought "why would I want to generate clutter?" I know it's a minor point but I'd go "Remove clutter, ads and trackers from any article" for a stronger initial proposition.

“Generate removal of clutter, ads and trackers” and then everyone is happy :D

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

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Post by pcthrowaway »

dmje wrote: post #19

I saw "generate clutter..." in the title and thought "why would I want to generate clutter?" I know it's a minor point but I'd go "Remove clutter, ads and trackers from any article" for a stronger initial proposition.

"Generate a URL that brings the content of any article into focus, leaving the clutter, ads, and tracking behind"

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

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Post by tyingq »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #29
web0_cc wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

unfortunately, No it can't.

Does anyone know how archive.is is able to remove paywalls if this can't?

It would either have to be pooled subscriptions, or a maintained set of different, per-site workarounds (using specific referrers and/or user-agents, disabling or modifying on-page javascript, hidden urls, etc) or a mix of the two.
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