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  • borked
    Totally Borked
    • Feb 2005
    • 6284
    #1

    Safari 5 HTML Reader - love it!

    Safari 5 has a nice little button next to the URL that effectively kills the ads, strips off the site's branding and presents the text in nicely-formatted book-style pages.

    According to Apple, "Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles... So you get the whole story and nothing but the story."
    Just did Software Update, installed and tried it - It makes reading online articles a much more pleasurable experience

    For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com
    (consider figuring out the email as test #1)


    All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box. p202
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    • borked
      Totally Borked
      • Feb 2005
      • 6284
      #2
      Safari 5.1 to incorporate vBulletin support for Safari Reader

      For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com
      (consider figuring out the email as test #1)


      All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box. p202

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        • sortie
          Confirmed User
          • Mar 2007
          • 7771
          #3
          Originally posted by borked
          Just did Software Update, installed and tried it - It makes reading online articles a much more pleasurable experience
          How pleasurable will the experience be when the websites close down because
          no one clicked their ads?

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            • The Duck
              Adult Content Provider
              • May 2005
              • 18243
              #4
              Funny to see a webmaster (coder I guess) promote stuff that removes ads and all site identity.
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                • seeandsee
                  Check SIG!
                  • Mar 2006
                  • 50945
                  #5
                  that is just wrong, some site are online only because ad revenue, now they will go down, fuck
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                    • Ethersync
                      Confirmed User
                      • Mar 2008
                      • 5289
                      #6
                      Originally posted by borked
                      Just did Software Update, installed and tried it - It makes reading online articles a much more pleasurable experience
                      The best ePassporte replacement I have found: OKPAY

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                        • borked
                          Totally Borked
                          • Feb 2005
                          • 6284
                          #7
                          Originally posted by sortie
                          How pleasurable will the experience be when the websites close down because
                          no one clicked their ads?
                          Ehm, if you actually tried it you'd realise that the website has to fully load before the reader button appears. Then it gives you a no clutter way to read the text. Even the hyperlinks within the text go to a web page, not a rendered reader page. And then if you want to continue to navigate around the site, you have to close the reader page to go back to the web page.

                          So, no I don't share your disgust as this just gives people another way to cleanly read text without killing ad revenue.

                          Oh, and in case you couldn't tell sarcasm from a fat hairy vagina, I was j/k on the vBulletin shit

                          For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com
                          (consider figuring out the email as test #1)


                          All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box. p202

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                            • borked
                              Totally Borked
                              • Feb 2005
                              • 6284
                              #8
                              Additionally, an Ipad news reader, Pulse News Reader, gets Apple's praise only to be pulled by Apple hours later after NYT complains

                              The NYT is Apple's chosen media outlet, and they haven't complained about the Safari Reader, probably because of the fundamental difference between the Pulse and Safari readers. One strips ads, another loads the we page....

                              For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com
                              (consider figuring out the email as test #1)


                              All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box. p202

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                                • Bird
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Jan 2005
                                  • 4365
                                  #9
                                  Finally, now I don't have to use the web-kit nightly
                                  ICQ:268731675

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