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Re:Fairy wrens teach familial ‘passwords’ to their unborn ch... by mieseratte on Sunday August 11, 2019 @06:59PM (#20671096)
Had the same on an iPhone. Just remembered Outline.com is for more than just dodging ad blockers, here's TFA[0]

Also, if you use Outline and submit an article it doesn't already have, there appears to be some kind of race-condition going on such that it stops showing the ad blocker but not the content. Resubmitting a second time usually fixes it.

[0] - https://outline.com/B294TL

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Re:Fairy wrens teach familial ‘passwords’ to their unborn ch... by al3xandre on Sunday August 11, 2019 @09:05PM (#20671635)
How can outline be even legal? They basically steal the content of a website and create a new page on their own with it. It just happened that the content is stripped of ads for readability, but still.
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Re:Fairy wrens teach familial ‘passwords’ to their unborn ch... by mieseratte on Sunday August 11, 2019 @09:53PM (#20671833)
It's similar enough to GrooveShark that I wonder how long of a lifespan it will have.

Of course I can get the content of these sites by disabling JavaScript or otherwise trivially (for me at least) edit the DOM. Obscurity isn't security, so Outline is really just scripting and caching content I could otherwise access so in the grand scheme of things I don't find the website itself to be particularly problematic in the same way I don't find the cassette tape to be. If anything my own behavior and usage of it is the real problem.

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