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tags.Might be much better these days but I can't try it out again because they've blocked anyone in the EU
I stopped using instapaper a few years ago, I found their HTML parsing didn't play well with articles that had code in or used tags. Might be much better these days but I can't try it out again because they've blocked anyone in the EU
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Hi Brad, Brian from Instapaper here. Just want to reassure you that's not the case here, we intend to operate Instapaper for the foreseeable future. We made this decision because we believe it’s best for both Pinterest and Instapaper.
Why is this better for Pinterest and/or Instapaper? In the 2016 blog post announcing the acquisition: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/149374303661 > All of these features and developments revolved around the core mission of Instapaper, which is allowing our users to discover, save, and experience interesting web content. In that respect, there is a lot of overlap between Pinterest and Instapaper. Joining Pinterest pr…
Was GDPR so terrifying that they had to sell it off?
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From what I’ve seen this is usually what happens when the parent company wants to close the service down. Not always. Fastmail was bought (back) from Opera by employees and they are doing fine.
Yes we are :) It's rare enough to be notable though. We enjoyed our time with Opera (especially me: I got to live in Oslo for 2 years), but there are definitely nice things about being independent and choose your own destiny. That and Opera was turning more into an advertising company, which wasn't a close fit with our existing user base. It's great to be in a position where we don't have split loyalties and "shadow…
I wish more companies adopted this approach to commerce.
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Still blocked for me. C'mon now, I get it as an emergency measure, I get it when LA Times does it since they aren't interested in European visitors; but this here is just plain lazy.
Nobody is really GDPR-ready, however, data privacy law is about being good enough. Yep, there isn’t full compliance ever. Instapaper looks very desperate with its GDPR-lockout of EU users. I guess the EU market is mostly lost …
Anybody know any good APIs or projects that help you get the article content for a given url? There is of course Mercury API, but are there any alternatives?