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The Safari Reader Arms Race

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the prefer-paper-rock-scissors dept.

JimLynch writes "Apple, by adding Reader to Safari 5, is essentially trying to force an e-book style interface onto the web reading experience. It will never work out over the long haul because web publishers will resist and the end result will be an arms race, with publishers on one side and Apple on the other." Another unmentioned issue is that sometimes it doesn't work. I've found pages where content is omitted from the reader UI.

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  1. Re:Force? by ergo98 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You'll find a lot of misinformation about the Safari Reader feature because it removes ads and combines those incredibly annoying multi-page articles into one page

    If they're annoying, why do you read them? Why do you go to sites with ads you don't like?

    I'm not saying that in a judgmental fashion -- I use ABP and greatly enjoy it. I just realize that I'm having my cake and eating it too, and it's grossly unsustainable. Will Apple provide a similar feature to block iAds from the iOS ecosystem?

    We need to revisit micropayments. The ad supported model is a continual cycle of unwanted side effects.