On: How does Firefox's Reader View work? (2020)

[pmoriarty]

Unsolicited advertising should be made illegal.

Then there'd be no reason to optimize the web to serve up ads, because legally you couldn't.

The world needs to switch away from advertising for the good of humanity.

[fleddr → pmoriarty]

Hey, fine with me. But do come up with an alternative monetization strategy.

[pmoriarty → fleddr]

Paywalls, donations, selling a service, kickstarters, have something physical to sell, etc..

[fleddr → pmoriarty]

These are (sometimes) good solutions for highly specific high value offerings, but that still leaves some 95% of the rest of the internet to cover ;)