No, Safari Reader Is Not the Beginning of an ‘Arms Race’

mnmal:

John Gruber at Daring Fireball wrote:

This guy Lynch’s website is exactly the sort of design turd that makes people want to use Safari Reader. Flash ads, half a dozen Google text ads, 10 “social media” dinguses, a side bar full of polls, sub-tabs, “related posts”, and more. And, to top it off, it’s split across three “pages”, with a measly 400 words per page. >Safari Reader doesn’t kick in by default. It’s invoked by the user. Apple isn’t telling Jim Lynch his site is ugly and hard to read. His readers are. If your website is user-hostile, don’t be surprised when your readers fight back. >UPDATE: Shockingly — shockingly, I tell you — Lynch’s site uses Tynt. And I agree. People has been using Readability and now Safari Reader because they are tired of bullshit. 

I mentioned this before, sites should give the user two options, suffer the ad infested crap or pay for an ads-free experience, and I mean ads-free, banner-free, comments-free, and social media free. I will gladly pay.