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You know what I'd buy in a heartbeat... an app that coordinates with other users of the same app to launch a DDoS attack against websites that disable pinch-to-zoom, or that railroad you over to a stupid mobile site.

Kickstarter, anyone?

And also please quit making the fixed headers and footers. It degrades the experience for everybody who tries to actually read something.

Tip: if you increase the text size in settings, the text will be larger when using reader mode in Safari.

I'd really rather just zoom. There's no real mode switch for me any more. To me, zoom is just a UI option that's a part of the mobile browser experience. Also, sometimes reader mode doesn't work, since it depends on one of a few technical tricks. Zooming is just basic geometry. If Apple wanted to, it could always be active, and it would always work.

I said it was just a tip, not the ideal fix. For someone it could be an acceptable solution.