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

#51
post #45

This is neat! Can I ask what you use to generate this part: "7 minutes"?

Formula i used is Ceil(CL/WL)/WPM)

CL= Content Length WP= Average Word Length (i used 5) WPM = Words per min, reading speed (i used 180)

not perfect but good enough.

Thanks breck for giving the app a try

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

#52
This tool is super nice, just tried the wired article about the electrons[1] and it got it really good, Safari reader just got the first couple of paragraphs, this tool delivered the complete thing

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-electron-is-having-a-magneti...

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

#53
post #48

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

Thats good. Honest question, Would you enjoy reading articles from archive.is on your mobile phone? as far as i remember, its not mobile-friendly.

It is mobile friendly towards reader-mode of iPhone Safari which is more than enough for me since I have reader-mode on by default for articles.

But I can agree that it doesn't render mobile-friendly websites by default.

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

#54
I can only think of two websites that I really despise visiting, CNN and Fandom. Tried a random link[0][1] from both; the CNN article did not get decluttered at all but actually moved underneath the clutter, while Fandom looked mostly okay but had weird brackets after all the titles.

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/business/svb-employees-angry-... , https://web0.cc/a/8ev_GjUcz-

[1]: https://deadcells.fandom.com/wiki/Promenade_of_the_Condemned , https://web0.cc/a/tymsJ3ZIH0

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

#55

How do you bypass paywalled content? Thanks for sharing.

I started working on this few days ago so havent had much time to think about paywalled content. Maybe this week i will try to find a solution.

There wont be much we could do If its behind captchas.

Thanks for giving it a try.

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

#56
> majority of my family members and friends are not using ad blockers

Yep, I'm also surprised when I notice people not having an ad blocker. That's a one time setup though, I often offer to help and install uBlock Origin, usually people keep it for a long time after this.

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

#57
post #12
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".

The point is more that I don't want to use email for feedback.

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

#58

Is it reading the web page, parsing it into an AST, sanitizing the AST, then writing it out? I have a similar function on my site: https://roastidio.us There are 2 caveats: * There are broken HTML files that somehow still work with a browser. * There are web pages that rely on javascript even for the main text.

* With (legacy) HTML being one of the most complex things to parse, that AST-parsing step poses an increased attack surface. Trying to mitigate that risk might keep cost of operating this service high in the long run.

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

#59
post #49

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 bu…

Thanks for the feedback & suggestions. >> Nice. How about creating a bookmarklet to make it super easy to share a web0.cc link from the current page? Sure, i will do it >> 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…

> Thats a good feature but it involves JS

Actually, you don’t need JS. The simplest mechanism is probably:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh

(Both HTML tag and HTTP header routes would probably work)

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

#60
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For non-CORS enabled sites Which is essentially every website, as CORS underpins how the web works. Only if there is a public API for a given site, would it be possible to do otherwise. And then you'd usually still need URL to API mapping, plus any further API sign up stuff that may or may not be required for simple GETs.

CORS was a hacky fix to a bad design that we are still paying for. But backwards compatibility is nice I guess.

I've always seen it as a feature that you can't access data from outside your own sandbox, kind of the killer thing that made the internet so useful for so many things without worrying about other sites being able to access your domain's data. Now copied to newer OSes and the reason why I trust my mom on Android a thousand times more than on Windows (or Linux, if it had had enough market share to have a serious malware industry).

But I can see how you could see it another way indeed

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