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Ohh, how nice it is to see this comment on every single article with a subscription modal.
Hey, I wanted to read the article but I couldn't make the subscription ad disappear from my phone. They lost a reader right there.
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I've got a couple of extensions on Firefox on Android, which make browsing bearable. But whenever I take out my iPad, I want to put it away. Large parts of the web are extremely annoying to me due to the ads, paywalls, popups, modals, cookie warnings, fingerprinting and what have you.
What do you use besides ublock origin?
Reader mode and https://outline.com
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I've got a couple of extensions on Firefox on Android, which make browsing bearable. But whenever I take out my iPad, I want to put it away. Large parts of the web are extremely annoying to me due to the ads, paywalls, popups, modals, cookie warnings, fingerprinting and what have you.
What do you use besides ublock origin?
Upon request, the creator of the "I don't care about cookies" extension will provide you with a receipt. That way you can write off your donation as a business expense or be reimbursed.
>Me, My Shelf, And I. Peak book title. Superb. Hats off to whoever thought of that.
“A bookshop owner is unqualified to be a literary critic. It’s more useful to know the distinguishing features of the first edition of The Pickwick Papers than to have read the bloody thing, and it’s always best not to bandy lit crit across the counter.” I strongly disagree! In fact I would say for typical customers this is exactly what’s expected of the bookseller. To find examples of great booksellers not from this…
as an avid small bookstore customer, in a university town where every genre of book and bookstore existed, I came to know well one successful bookseller, worked for him on special assignments, then worked at his estate. He was literate, mercurial and absolutely a scoundrel about money. The most important, basic, recurring issue of the day was money in every form. Every opportunity to get something for one price and s…
The character of this bookseller included real book appreciation, and collections were important for real reasons previously mentioned... It was not a generic, corporate environment, it was instead filled with people with real interests and specialties, and almost always an appreciation for broad areas of book meaning, craft and lore. There was freedom of thought and association -- it was not missing. Borders Books and Barnes & Noble of the early nineties were the nightmare to these people, and that was one step before Amazon dot com, which was (and is) held in open contempt by many that had experience with the older ways.