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This site has way too much ads, is there a clean version somewhere else?

In the old days I had an automation to grab things, clean up and push to my kindle to read texts. This was at the time of RSS feeds and just after Google had killed Google Reader and I already despised ads.

I am using an iPhone and it's just dreadful to use the internet on this thing due to the ridiculous amount of ads.

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Firefox Reader mode works pretty well, but I don't know what the FF situation is like on iOS. I know you can download adblockers for Safari that may improve your experience.

iOS FF is pretty subpar. You can’t even crudely disable all js like in safari. Though I still use it, as Brave crashes on launch half the time and refuses to open (1.3k tabs) and safari also has a 500 tab limit

You can still choose automation. The easier route for me is to use wallabag to save the article. Then on my remarkable tablet I can grab a very readable document with https://github.com/koreader/koreader.

One other option is to use https://github.com/danburzo/percollate to convert a webpage to a nice document directly. I use both tools depending on my needs.

I came back to this thread expecting to see at least one reply in a let-me-LLM-that-for-you style to task an LLM with reader-mode cleanup.

Is the lack of such posts due to newfound restraint? Or is this kind of task already too complex for an LLM? Could one manage to work from raw page sources and figure out what text to summarize to the kindle reader? Or would there need to be other browser-simulating layers to first do all the page rendering and scraping before handing off text to the LLM for further cleanup?

> I am using an iPhone and it's just dreadful to use the internet on this thing due to the ridiculous amount of ads.

I'm not seeing any as I read this on iPhone. If you want a similar experience there are many good solutions, but my "quiet web" extensions are 1Blocker, Hush, Rekt, and Vinegar.

I’m on iPhone using Safari, with AdGuard and no ads.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...

Maybe something like this, for you?

Turns out I already had that and it didn't do nothing. So here's what happened. 95% of the time I am on my phone I am on GitHub but the Safari browser annoys me to use the app instead and the Chrome browser doesn't do it, so I switched to that, but it has no extension functionality (probably purposefully) so it gets all Ads. Seriously, the iPhone experience on the web is dreadful compared to Android.

Disabling js was the only way to make it bearable for me. Breaks some functionality here and there, but for general “browsing” the trade-off is worth it. Eg zero ads, popups, paywalls.

There's no browser extensions for Chrome on Android either, and Google shoves ads into the entire OS experience if you accidentally left swipe without going in an explicitly configuring stuff. Android is an ad-infested shit show by comparison to iOS right out of the box. If you're willing and able to fix that on Android, then you're able to head over to Settings -> Safari and toggle off Safari Suggestions and turn off the app install nags you consider annoying.

Or install AdGuard as a local VPN on your iPhone and you're set or set your DNS to an ad-blocking DNS, even Chrome for iOS will get ads blocked. This is a you problem, stop whining.

Use Safari's reader mode. I use it often and it's great!

I have a large and ever growing list of sites that I've told Safari to use Reader mode on automatically. The internet is much more bearable for it.

There are add blocking extensions for safari available in the App Store that perform in line with uBlock origin

Firefox plus NoScript, with the added bonus that the page loads in 400ms.

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