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Or even just SFSafariViewController set to automatically enter reader mode. Then you're not downloading/displaying content from other sites, but you're still keeping users within your app.

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That seems even worse tbh. You are of course still downloading their content, but now you're also leaving out any money making possibilities the host site may have had in place. Even less likely to be considered "permitted".

Reader mode (and the ability to enable it by default [0]) are built-in features—and ones that are used quite frequently by other apps.

Downloading and displaying content from websites in general (not a specific site(s) that you have permission for) seems much less common. I can't think of any other app I've ever seen that does that.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/sfs...

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