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Show HN: Web0.cc - Generate clutter, ad and tracker free article
pages to share
I recently observed that majority of my family members and friends
are not using ad blockers and reader mode for reasons suck as lack
of knowledge about plugins & laziness. So their online reading
experience is not pleasant as a result very less amount of them
read anything including what i share. Its an attempt to give them
clutter, tracker & ad free reading experience right off the bat.
Author : web0_cc
Score : 82 points
Date : 2023-03-13 13:55 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (web0.cc)
(TXT) w3m dump (web0.cc)
| vivegi wrote:
| Tried https://nytimes.com/ to see what I get. The output
| https://web0.cc/a/rLk0Tnn2K- was not what I expected.
| SamBam wrote:
| It's designed for reading articles, I wouldn't expect the front
| page to work well.
|
| Here's an opinion article from the Times, seems to work fine:
|
| https://web0.cc/a/zTHtZFEXci
|
| Suggestion for web0: include the final part of the URL in the
| new URL, so you can at least make a guess as to what it is.
| Include a GUID at the end if you need to disambiguate.
| web0_cc wrote:
| Thanks for checking the app, SamBam.
|
| Do you mean like this https://web0.cc/a/zTHtZFEXci?url=https:
| //www.nytimes.com/202...
| SamBam wrote:
| That's good, although anyone can put anything there.
|
| https://web0.cc/a/zTHtZFEXci?url=https://haxx0r.c0m
|
| I was thinking more along the lines of
|
| https://web0.cc/a/opinion/english-literature-study-
| zTHtZFEXc...
|
| Of course it doesn't actually grant you security.
|
| What if your original link with the `url=` refused to load
| if the target didn't match the query parameter? That would
| actually make it secure, no?
| jszymborski wrote:
| Seems to truncate this article
|
| https://web0.cc/a/e-cYg2rJ8Q
|
| https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/floating-solar-panel...
| junon wrote:
| 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.
| mroche wrote:
| 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".
| web0_cc wrote:
| Thanks for giving it a try. Sure i will look into it.
| ignoramous wrote:
| I use _archive.is_ because it removes ads, cookie banners, and
| doesn 't execute archived webapage's javascript.
| dgeiser13 wrote:
| Does this also remove paywalls? Either intentionally or
| unintentionally?
| web0_cc wrote:
| unfortunately, No it can't.
| pcthrowaway wrote:
| Does anyone know how archive.is is able to remove paywalls if
| this can't?
| tyingq wrote:
| 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.
| xnx wrote:
| Does this insert affiliate links?
| web0_cc wrote:
| No
| realshadow wrote:
| web0- Zero ads, Zero trackers & Zero Clutter. Awesome.
|
| I think this is a good tool to share articles with not tech savy
| parents who cant distinguish between ads and real content.
| nmstoker wrote:
| 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.
| eli wrote:
| If the site ever gets popular expect to get blocked by publishers
| and/or to receive legal threats. Big publishers really don't like
| people republishing content without a license.
| steren wrote:
| Why isn't this achieved client side?
| a2128 wrote:
| 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
| kevincox wrote:
| 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?
| prophesi wrote:
| Nice domain name! It'd be cool to leverage archive.md as well to
| help bypass pay walls. I tried it on a First Things link and it
| was only able to grab the first two paragraphs.
| web0_cc wrote:
| Mozilla's readability library does the heavy lifting behind the
| scenes. Its an amazing library but it fails to support some
| sites.
|
| I will definitely try to improve the library or find another
| way to support the mentioned website.
|
| Thanks for the feedback.
| eevahr wrote:
| Is the source code available anywhere?
| dmje wrote:
| 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.
| emmelaich wrote:
| Mine is
|
| > _Generate pages free of ads, trackers and other clutter._
|
| Put the major purpose in the first two words.
|
| [edit - otoh it doesn't generate pages really but generates
| versions of existing pages]
| codetrotter wrote:
| "Generate removal of clutter, ads and trackers" and then
| everyone is happy :D
| pcthrowaway wrote:
| "Generate a URL that brings the content of any article into
| focus, leaving the clutter, ads, and tracking behind"
| layer8 wrote:
| How about "Declutter web pages, remove ads and trackers". Then
| the thing being improved (web pages) is also mentioned at the
| start and not only at the end.
| carapace wrote:
| > Generate clutter-, ad-, and tracker-free article pages to
| share
|
| I miss hyphens.
| [deleted]
| solarkraft wrote:
| Pretty neat; it's something I've wished for in the past for
| things like browsing on limited E-Readers.
|
| How'd you build it? I built something vaguely similar (but
| generating epub) using Mercury Parser.
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