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

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Take the giant Google badge out of the reader