iSafari Reader

Another new announcement/feature of iOS 5 today is the Reader view in Mobile Safari.  I find this to be an interesting feature, not because it is anything new (it has been possible to do this with Mozilla Firefox for a number of years) but because it bites the hand that feeds, it seems to hide advertisements.  I wonder how many ad-supported websites will like this (especially the little guys) considering the number of them that now insert advertisements into RSS feeds (or have cut their RSS feed back to only give the first 2 sentences of an article).

While I agree that displaying a website how you want to display it on the user's device should be up to the user, I think there could be some backlash to this from those want to make money via the ads on their website.

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