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Comment by dmje | Hacker News Reader

I saw "generate clutter..." in the title and thought "why would I want to generate clutter?"

I know it's a minor point but I'd go "Remove clutter, ads and trackers from any article" for a stronger initial proposition.

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Mine is

> Generate pages free of ads, trackers and other clutter.

Put the major purpose in the first two words.

[edit - otoh it doesn't generate pages really but generates versions of existing pages]

How about “Declutter web pages, remove ads and trackers”. Then the thing being improved (web pages) is also mentioned at the start and not only at the end.

> Generate clutter-, ad-, and tracker-free article pages to share

I miss hyphens.

This is correct, and without the hyphens it reads like a garden-path sentence[1], which is one with an ambiguous structure that normal readers tend to parse incorrectly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

Was also thrown off by the ambiguous grammar. But for me the thought was "Finally, a submitted example of using AI as a means to generate garbage to be consumed by "tech" companies as 'data, the new oil'."

Faculty cannot detect the use of "AI". We have much about that. But neither can "tech" companies.

As for the submission, unlike archive.is, archive.ph, etc. web0.cc does not require Javascript, it does not require the user to solve a CAPTCHA, it does not insist on EDNS0 (ECS),^1 and it does not connect to the following third party URLs

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=onloadCallbac...

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=https:/...

https://a.publir.com/platform/1100.js

https://a.publir.com/sellers.json

https://a.publir.com/ads-txt/505/ads.txt

https://top-fwz1.mail.ru/js/code.js

1. Including disabling the use of Cloudflare DNS. Even when a user is not using EDNS0, archive.ph still collects the user's IP address using DNS. For example,

   https://[YOUR_IP_ADDRESS].[YOUR_COUNTRY].inc1.358424231.pixel.archive.ph/x.gif

Further, archive.ph does not seem to work with archive.org. Web0.cc seems to work:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230313185743if_/https://web0.c...

To hop on this tagline train...open to any critiques.

"Share any link with ads and tracking removed."

Rationale:

Sharing = most important verb/subject. Followed by the subject (links)

Ads and tracking - people know what ads are, they might know what tracking implies. trackers may be more abstract.

Clutter - removed this word. What does clutter mean in this context?

My bad.

First of all thank you all for the feedback & suggestions.

I think these all are good suggestions. I will pick one for sure

Agreed. Some example links or a single small before/after image would have helped.

“Generate removal of clutter, ads and trackers” and then everyone is happy :D

"Generate a URL that brings the content of any article into focus, leaving the clutter, ads, and tracking behind"

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