Rdd.me – Readability Powered URL Shortening Service

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How is this not copyright infringement?

I visit http://rdd.me/etjavojs and I get the content of a scraped NY Times article served off of readability's server. All the ads are removed and they added an upsell for other Readability products.

How is this any different from me copy/pasting articles onto my own blog and slapping AdSense on it?

For me the link redirects to a NYTimes login page. Maybe you are already logged into NYTimes, and NYTimes claimed their domain through Readability's service?

It appears that Readability drops a cookie.

Since I created the link, I get the "clean" version, everyone I share it with gets the original site framed with an annoying Readability link. Makes me wonder what's the point. If I wanted to share a link on Twitter, wouldn't I prefer to send people to a page without an extra Readability frame on it.

I thought framing other people's content went out of favor a decade ago

As unnecessary as any other URL shortening; and features like this belong to user clients (and not content) where they're always available for those and only those who needs them.

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