Neuters: Lightweight front end to Reuters News
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I wonder if it would be possible to align revenue generation with user experience, instead of both goals being incompatible with each other.
Successful much less. Most users happily open bloat sites and pay with their privacy and being manipulated.
You can use bloat sites and pay with your privacy and be manipulated for free or you can pay for the experience, but you'll be using bloat sites and pay with your privacy and be manipulated no matter what.
No, news websites don't have to be this sterile.
I think NYT is a prime example of how to merge classic text-based articles with multimedia content in a way that's beneficial to the consumer.
JS and ad bloat made HTML5 video and audio tags rendered null with no actual usage IRL.
NYT doesn't have to hinder its innovative efforts to create informative content just because of a couple of folks who refuse to admit that tech evolves over time.
I understand that ads can be annoying, and for that I use ad blockers where necessary; but for everything else, I appreciate the advancements in the web tech capabilities that enable the creation of amazing stuff.
But good websites will let you, that's the point.
So why is neuter a good website while nyt's isn't?
I mean who even reads ad-spam websites in the first place? They used to host little bits of knowledge you'd search for... now I can reach that better via ChatGPT (eg. How to do mission X in video game Y)
I can only imagine... I read some well crafted news, no ads, no malicious tracking, no ad-blocker-blocker popup, no newsletter popup - and at end of the article: "This experience was great because we're supported by XYZ company, they have no control of our editorial process" (with company logo). Tasteful, still supported by ads, probably completely unsustainable.
And if I subtract university and active library times, I really wonder how I didn't turn towards the conspiratorial kind of thought patterns instead of viewing it all in the light of "cooperation in a complex world full of prenatally brain damaged magic money people".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32916318
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32288732
Also "Redirector"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29665373
On Safari iOS you could try "Stop The Madness"
Or they can and simply don't bother?
Yes, they can send a C&D to whomever is hosting the copies of their content.
Yes, they are losing some minor potential ad income.
They will likely bother if their legal department notices and thinks it rises to a level they must contend with. My guess is that it won’t.
- There is a whole category of software called "news aggregators". Are they all infringers? How can they operate, apart from praying that the news outlet doesn't care?
- News outlets quote each other, e.g. "According to Reuters", etc. Does that solve the copyright issue? Is it only the 100% verbatim copy that is copyrighted?
Many thanks already for the insights.
On a positive note, the next time you land on a similar page, you'll know two more methods of finding a solution:
1. Check the URL.
2. Check the footer.Going back to home page should be built in and easy. I had the same issue, mobile browsers don't even show uri properly or hide menu, so manually editing address is not exactly my first thought on how to navigate a web page.
What kind of browser are you using? Aside from the url ending "/about", the first thing I see on the page is a big bold heading that reads "About".
Honestly, I have only one way with dealing with those: not using those sites.
Website Settings > Show Reader Automatically
Settings > Safari > Settings for Websites > Reader > Other WebsitesBut I can't find any reference for it, somehow. How did the author know how to write this https://github.com/HookedBehemoth/neuters/tree/master/src/ap... ?
Also I clicked on a few 301s in a row
- lite.cnn.com
- text.npr.org
Unofficial:
- 68k.news
- skinnyguardian.xyz
... I'm sure there are plenty more!
But you can alwyas either use gopher://magical.fish/1/news under Lynx or Dillo with the Gopher plugin or head to
http://portal.mozz.us/gopher/magical.fish/1/news
under any browser, even the ancient ones from the Netscape 4 era.
combines many sites
"Syria this, France that" should turn into "Gov. this, Gov. that", for example
sounded like a vasectomy site though haha
Video interstitials, paywalls or modal dialogs asking me to allow megabytes of tracking requests are a deal breaker. Anything that annoys or slows me down is more expensive than the value of the content, which I typically want to skim.
The content is rarely worth it. As it concerns Reuters, the same content will be parroted and recycled elsewhere. Legacy media is tone deaf from editorial policy to the nuts and bolts of how content is displayed.