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Take the giant Google badge out of the reader

2026-11-13T19:56:19+00:00

"Remove giant Google icon", reported on a West Hawaii Today article. It is the "Add as a preferred source on Google" badge that sits beside the byline. Giant because the page caps it at 120px with its own stylesheet and the reader drops the page's CSS, so a small badge on the site becomes a full-width image above the first paragraph. Matched on the link's address rather than the class, and that is forced rather than preferred: running the vendored Readability.js over the real page shows the wrapper's preferred_source_badge class does not survive extraction at all, so a class rule would match nothing. The anchor does survive, and its address is Google's own and identical for every publisher in the programme -- where the badge's image filename sits under this newspaper's theme directory and is not. So the address is both the only signal left and the one that generalises. A link with words in it is never touched. An article may discuss the programme and link to it in a sentence, and that sentence is the author's. Both cleaners now run from one entry point. There are two places a body is cleaned -- a fresh extraction on the way out, a cached one on the way back in -- and a cached article is cleaned in place rather than discarded, so a cleaner wired into only the fresh path would leave every already-read article carrying litter nothing would ever remove. Peter's report says the article was cached, which is exactly that case. Pinned against the real thing: the reported article, put through the real extractor, loses the badge and keeps its text and byline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AwnALZL6bD4VBtATDVv3B

Name a title-less feed item by its own opening words

2026-10-22T22:13:32+00:00

RSS requires an item to carry a title or a description, not both, and plenty of feeds take the second option. Mastodon's tag feeds are the case that surfaced it: every one of the 20 items in mastodon.social/tags/giftlink.rss has a description and no title at all, so subscribing to one produced a list of blank rows with nothing to read or tap. A post says what it is, it just says it in the body, so the item is now named by its own first sentence -- falling back to its opening words when the sentence runs long, and to its link when there are no words at all. Two details that the live feed taught rather than the fixture: Inline tags are removed without leaving a gap, and only block boundaries become a space. Mastodon splits a hashtag as `#giftlink` and a URL as `https:// wapo.st/x`, so turning every tag into a space tore both apart -- first pass produced "# HumaneRights # USPolitics" and "the loophole https:// wapo.". A full stop only ends a sentence when whitespace or the end of the text follows it, or the dot in "wapo.st/abc" ends it instead -- which is how that same title got cut at "https://wapo.". It also skips an opening fragment shorter than 20 characters: naming an article "Wow." helps nobody. Deliberately free of android.text.Html, unlike the parser's existing entity decoding -- that pulls in the framework, which is why FeedParser has no unit tests. This part does, 22 of them. Verified on a device against the live feed: 20 items, 0 blank titles, URLs and hashtags intact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AwnALZL6bD4VBtATDVv3B

Fix stray promo headers, site-URL subscribing, and YouTube playback

2026-10-21T19:07:17+00:00

Three reported bugs. **"West Hawaii today articles get a bunch of stray Trending headers."** The publisher's widget platform injects promo blocks between the real paragraphs, inside the article's own container, so every structural signal tells Readability they belong. What survives is a heading labelling nothing, because the links under it are filled in by a script that never runs in the reader. Confirmed on 9 of the 12 articles in that feed, two each. Blocks marked `data-mrf-recirculation` are now removed -- the attribute says what the block is for in the widget platform's own words, which is a better signal than the word "Trending", since an article may legitimately discuss what is trending. Nothing longer than a label and a few headlines is ever removed. Also applied to already-cached articles, in place rather than by discarding them: the article was fine, only the litter has to go. **"Can't subscribe to heathercoxrichardson.substack.com."** Adding a feed handed whatever URL it was given straight to the XML parser, so a site's home page -- the only URL a reader can actually see and copy -- failed on the root element. That page advertises its feed the way sites have since 2002, in a in the head. It is now read, resolved against the page, and fetched. Only what the page declares: guessing /feed and /rss would add a burst of 404s to every failed add and eventually subscribe somebody to the wrong thing. **"YouTube play is misconfigured."** It was, and YouTube said so: the player dialog loaded the embed as its own top-level document, which answers with "Video player configuration error -- Error 153". An embed has to be embedded. It now sits in an iframe on a minimal host page. Measured in the app's own WebView: top-level, no requests for the video stream and the error on screen; framed, the stream loads and there is no error. **"Long click on YouTube placeholder should open the URL directly."** It does now. Worth recording why this is not simply the link's href: for an image inside a link, WebView's hit test reports the image's URL, so a long-press on the thumbnail arrives as the i.ytimg.com JPEG. The video id is resolved out of that. Verified on a device for all four: the Substack site URL adds "Letters from an American" and fetches 20 articles; a West Hawaii Today article extracts with no Trending headers and its body intact; the video plays; and a long-press reaches the YouTube app. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AwnALZL6bD4VBtATDVv3B

Render an article's maths instead of showing its TeX source

2026-10-16T21:04:38+00:00

Reported against lcamtuf's Substack ("we should render tex", blog.coredump.cx/p/yours-truly): reader mode showed raw "\(p = \text{...}\)" where equations should be. What the page actually ships is the TeX SOURCE, as text, inside a "latex-rendered" div -- Substack renders it in the browser with its own script, which never runs here. Readability keeps that text verbatim (it strips the class, not the text), so nothing was being discarded during extraction and no amount of extraction-side repair would have helped: there was simply never any rendered markup to keep. So render it during extraction, where JavaScript is already running for Readability's sake. KaTeX (vendored in assets, never fetched -- this runs against untrusted third-party pages) converts each expression to MathML before Readability sees the document, and the reader WebView renders that natively. The reader keeps JavaScript OFF, as it must, and needs no stylesheet, webfont or script of KaTeX's; the only reader-side change is containing a wide equation so it scrolls within its own box instead of dragging the whole article sideways. Two details worth knowing: - KaTeX refuses {align} outside display mode, and Substack wraps display maths in INLINE delimiters (a block-styled span does the centring), so a mode that renders nothing is retried in the other one. An expression neither mode can render is left as source -- no worse than before. - The reported article came with "extractedContent cached: true", so the raw source was already on disk and every open read it back. Recognised and dropped on read (same mechanism as the cached consent notice), which re-extracts the article the next time it is opened. APK grows by ~90KB: the vendored katex.min.js (267KB) compresses to 91KB in the APK. No new permissions, no schema change, no new JS-enabled surface. Verified on the emulator against the live article: stale raw-TeX cache discarded, article re-extracted, all four equations rendered, and a wide align block scrolls inside itself.

Stop reader mode passing a site's cookie notice off as the article

2026-10-12T00:41:24+00:00

Reported live: reader mode on a New Republic feature showed nothing but the cookie disclaimer, and had cached it. Reproduced outside the app by running ReaderExtractor's own injected script (Readability.js and all) against the real page. With the article body present, extraction is perfect. With the body absent from the DOM at the moment the script runs, Readability's first pass -- which discards "unlikely candidates", and the Didomi banner's class is didomi-notice-banner -- comes back under its own 500-character threshold, so it retries with that stripping switched off. The banner's single paragraph is 510 characters, i.e. just over the threshold, so it comes back as the article with the right title attached. Nothing on the Kotlin side looked at that. Any non-blank content counted as ExtractionResult.Success, was written to articles.extractedContent, and was never reconsidered -- so one bad load became a permanent cookie disclaimer, which is the "extractedContent cached: true" in the report. ConsentNotice recognises such a result: a hard plain-text length cap first (nothing long is ever rejected, however much consent boilerplate it quotes), then either a known CMP container id -- Readability strips classes but keeps ids -- or two or more distinct consent phrases. The accept/retry/give-up decision moves out of the WebView callback into decideEvalOutcome so it can be tested without a device. A consent notice is now "not ready yet", which routes it into the retry the extractor already does for an empty result; if it survives all six attempts that is what the page serves, and it fails as ExtractionFailure.ConsentInterstitial rather than being accepted. A fixed extractor cannot repair what is already on disk, so loadCachedExtraction drops a cached notice on read and re-extracts, in both ReaderScreen and LinkReaderScreen. No schema change: the repair happens when the article is next opened. Reader mode is still never turned on heuristically -- replacing a discarded notice does not flip it. The bug report now also carries the last extraction error, without which a report about bad reader content cannot say whether extraction failed. Tests: 59 -> 78. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AwnALZL6bD4VBtATDVv3B

Reflow reader text live while pinching, and let a zoomed image pan

2026-09-29T07:12:48+00:00

Pinching in the reader used to scale the whole WebView like a photo and snap back to the real font size on release. It now drives WebSettings.textZoom as the fingers move, so the text itself resizes and reflows during the gesture with nothing to snap back from; images and margins stay put. The reload at the new saved size is what returns textZoom to 100%, so the two never overlap -- and loading reader HTML now goes through ReaderWebView.loadReaderHtml, which does both together, so a future load site can't forget the reset. Reader view for a tapped link now honors the saved font size and the same pinch gesture, instead of always rendering at the 18px default. A zoomed image can be panned again. The viewer computed its pan bounds from values captured when the dialog first composed -- an empty viewport around a not-yet-decoded image -- because a pointerInput(Unit) block keeps the lambda it was created with. Those bounds allowed exactly one offset, 0, so zooming worked and dragging did nothing. The whole pinch/pan step is now one pure function the gesture callback calls with values it reads fresh each time.

Support pinch-to-zoom for reader text size in the article view

2026-09-15T23:12:44+00:00

Pinching in ReaderScreen's article WebView now adjusts the same persisted reader font size the Settings slider controls, instead of doing nothing (WebView's own page zoom was never enabled, so a pinch previously had no effect at all). A ScaleGestureDetector is fed through setOnTouchListener, which always returns false so it never consumes the touch -- WebView's existing one-finger scrolling, link taps and long-press-link handling are unaffected, since ScaleGestureDetector only fires once a second pointer is down. During the gesture the WebView is scaled live via View.scaleX/ scaleY for immediate visual feedback; at gesture end the scale resets to 1x and the computed, clamped font size is persisted, which drives ReaderScreen's existing content-reload-on-fontSizePx-change path to re-render the actual HTML at the new size. TDD: pinchZoomFontSizePx (the pure scale-factor -> clamped-px calculation) was written test-first, red on a TODO() stub, green on the real implementation -- covered by SettingsTest. newReaderWebView grew from 6 to 8 parameters to carry the new gesture hooks, which pushed it over detekt's LongParameterList threshold; bundled all of its callbacks into a ReaderWebViewCallbacks data class rather than baselining past it, updating both call sites (ReaderScreen, LinkReaderScreen). ReaderContent gained no new parameter -- it now independently remembers its own Settings instance to persist the pinch-committed size, matching how it already remembers its own db and scope rather than threading them from ReaderScreen. LinkReaderScreen's WebView is untouched: it doesn't read the reader font size setting at all today, so wiring pinch-zoom there would be a separate, unrelated fix.

Add reader font size setting, rewrite paywall-avoidance settings copy

2026-08-31T15:43:02+00:00

Font size was hardcoded at 18px in ReaderWebView's injected CSS. Added a DataStore-backed setting (Settings.readerFontSizePx, 14-28px range) with a slider in Settings, threaded through ReaderScreen/ReaderContent into wrapReaderHtml. The reload-tracking key in ReaderContent's AndroidView now includes font size alongside content, so changing it and returning to an already-open article picks up the new size without reloading on every unrelated recomposition (matches the existing comment there about avoiding scroll-position jank). Rewrote the Settings screen's paywall note -- it read as defensive throat-clearing about what the app won't do. Restated as what it's actually for: avoiding tracking, manipulation, and junk fees, with reader mode pulling up anything findable by search anyway. Regenerated the detekt baseline: ReaderContent's pre-existing LongMethod/LongParameterList/CyclomaticComplexMethod findings are keyed by exact function signature text, and adding the fontSizePx parameter changed that text, invalidating the old baseline entries. The underlying debt (a 300+ line, 9-now-10-parameter composable) predates this change and isn't what this commit is about. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AwnALZL6bD4VBtATDVv3B

Remove 3 confirmed-dead DAO methods

2026-08-24T08:00:51+00:00

ArticleDao.delete(article) -- superseded by deleteUnsavedByFeed. ArticleDao.markAllReadForFeed -- no "mark all read for this feed" UI action exists; superseded by the id-list-based markReadBatchChunked. FilterRuleDao.getAll() -- every caller uses the Flow-returning observeAll() instead. Re-verified all three have zero callers beyond their own declaration before removing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017GMEkHeqKz6FLkmizowBTK

Mute emptywheel's recurring "Fridays with Nicole Sandler" series

2026-08-22T22:35:58+00:00

Reported via the in-app bug report against a specific numbered installment (-111). Seeds a MUTE filter rule scoped to the emptywheel feed rather than requiring it be added by hand in Settings, matching this file's existing pattern of shipping known personal-data fixes as migrations.