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I really really love having easy access to a reader view that isn't tied to a specific web browser. Thank you! \o/

• spindle 5y ago
  I also love the lack of advertising.
  • jedwhite 5y ago
    Advertising is the corrupting influence that has ruined the Internet and made using the web awful :( Google can only get away with it because they have a browser distribution monopoly with Chrome, Android and their deal with Apple. If Andi works, our mission is to come up with a different and more fair economic model for the web. It's early days, but it's time for different approaches than a screen filled with advertising. So, I'm with you here! It's time for a world that lacks advertising :)
• jedwhite 5y ago
  Thank you. Reader view is my favorite thing we've built. The web has become a cesspool of ad-tech to the point that most of the news or articles you try to read are simply unusable. Pop-over/under/auto-roll ads, no visible content on the page, paywalls for content shared with search engines, allow notifications, location prompts, full-screen interstitials and on and on. I don't blame publishers. Google and Facebook took all the digital revenue and left the people who make content with nothing, so they have to milk every last penny through out of control ad tech and tracking. Reader view is a way for users to get back to what the web was like, without getting tracked or having to sign up for every subscription site on the web. But it is really important to stress that our entire model is to share revenue when we start having it with the people who make the content. So we want to actively partner with media companies to give Andi users even more paywalled and exclusive content, and give a revenue stream to content producers that shares they value with them that their content creates in search.