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Are Ads a Huge Waste of Time?

I definitely hit “Cmd-Shift-r” to bring up Safari 5′s Reader when I landed on this page…

2 Responses to “Are Ads a Huge Waste of Time?”

  1. Chris Sparno says:

    Gee, flash is SOOOO useful on the Forbes site! Sam, I am disappointed that not all sites let the “reader” do its thing. I could not find a dev note that explains what triggers that functionality in Safari 5, but not all feeds seem supported. Have you heard/seen what the trigger is? RSS vs Atom perhaps?

  2. Sam Harrelson says:

    Chris- Scott Jangro has a post detailing how it’s linked to the full site RSS feed:http://www.jangro.com/browser-plugins/how-to-block-safari-5s-new-reader-and-b…However, it still looks like they are doing some cleaning up of the feed (if that’s the case) similar to what Instapaper does. I’ll dig some more. Good question.

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