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Irony: The web page that rails about the web being user hostile is coded so that Safari's user-friendly reader mode is disabled.

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To be fair, reader mode is a pile of mostly opaque heuristics and it can be tricky to opt-in/out.

Author here. Is it? It works on my end. Could you tell me which OS/Safari version you're using? Thanks.

Didn’t work for me either. Ios 11.1.

In case you're getting unsure: it works fine in Firefox's reader mode.

Works for me Firefox/iOS 11.0

Even on the latest Safari it doesn't work: 10.13.1 (17B48) with macOS: 10.13.1 (17B48)

Nothing about that page seems like it would stop Reader so I filed a Radar about it.

Reader readies Radar regarding Reader regression.

(Please don't continue this. I just had to get it out of my system.)

Ok thanks for the replies. I'll go troubleshooting!

Working on Safari 11.0.1 / macOS 10.12.6. Maybe 10.13-specific?

Doesn't work for me either (in Safari; Firefox will pull it up though). Based on the (old) Stack Overflow answers, it's probably a combination of the HTML5 header/footer elements, and "wrapper" div ids pulling the "readability" score down.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2999600/how-to-disable-s...

Safari Version 11.0 (13604.1.38.1.6)

Works for me with Safari Technology Preview 43 (Safari 11.1, WebKit 13605.1.12), High Sierra 10.13.2b1 (17C60c).

Works for me on iOS Safari 11.0.3

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