I just want to view the recipe

Hey- that’s pretty handy. I didn’t know about this. Thank you!
- You can only save 20 recipes before you have to pay, but you can view as many as you like without saving them. Still, a very nice app IMO.
- Also, since it looks like you’re on iPhone, Paprika 3. Worth every penny.
theres also cooked.wiki. tack “cooked.wiki/“ onto the start of a recipe URL and it scrapes and reformats for you
What a sad state of affairs that such a site is even necessary. The internet was supposed to make finding information easier, not some increasingly kafkaesque tug of war.
Thank you for posting that though. It should come in handy.

ah yes, a $1500 phone with software that won't allow you to do shit under the flag of security and UI.

They're all headed that way. And Google wants to do it to PCs too.
Safari allows you to install adblockers, btw. Apple is overprotective but this isn’t really their fault.
- If you are only concerned about blocking ads thats fine and good. But if your are concerned about privacy one should ditch apple devices altogether. Not to mention freedom.

Use justtherecipe.com - it will not only cut ads, but also the sob story about the writer's grandmother and how they kept this thing a family secret for exactly 137 years until now.

I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR GRANDMOTHER IN FACT IM GLAD THE BITCH IS DEAD
-Things I never thought would cross my mind because of a cookie recipe

I low-key find it more infuriating that you're not using an adblocker...

That’s not exactly easy on an iPhone
Edit: I guess I was wrong
- You can still block ads on a DNS level. Simply add, base.dns.mullvad.net as your primary DNS Server and that should do you a lot of good just there. I'm sure there are additional steps one could take as an iPhone user though.
- AdGuard works just great for me on iOS.
- It is, though. Safari has native support for 3rd party adblockers, it’s just that many people don’t know. AdGuard is one of the good options. Safari is doing the actual blocking for the most part (the extension just hands over the filterlists), but nowadays some of the adblockers include an optional extension that applies some rules for complex ads that are not supported by the Apple API, such as on YouTube. As an end user you just have to install and enable the adblocker.
  Then there are also other browsers available with built-in adblockers. Admittedly those are all limited in some ways because they’re forced to use the same browser engine (outside of the EU), but they are very effective at blocking ads.
- Magic Lasso. Ghostery. Both decent ad blockers for iOS.
  And if you’re using the built in web browser, there’s reader mode that gets rid of most of this crap.
- How is that not easy? Just install an adblocker from the App Store, there are plenty of options.
- I use AdGuard pro it makes a local VPN to block ads similar to blokada or dns66 on android
- It’s extremely easy, you just install AdGuard.
- Can iOS install FF? Legit question, Ive never owned an iPhone.
- Set dns in your wifi network’s iPhone settings to manual and type in 176.103.130.130 and dns.adguard.com (or is it dns.adguard-dns.com)
- Brave? Firefox Focus? Safari with adguard extension?
- I have a solution for this.

we've long transcended beyond User Experience and into Advertiser Experience

Just like television - the ads are the content; the shows are the filler.
Brings to mind the black mirror episode with the dude who made his living doing a tour on a stationary bike generating electricity and watching ads, but ending up squandering the proceeds on avatars to entertain him and on a girl he was crushing on who was fast tracked to hardcore porn as a result of his financing.
- do you remember the episode title maybe? sounds interesting

I legitimately thought this was satire

Are things really this bad without an ad blocker these days?

Yes. For a long time I was trying to "play nice" and not go adblock. I didn't mind ads that were unobtrusive and figured I'd roll with the ads for the sake of the sites. With things looking like this, and deliberately having ads load a little late and relayout the page to replace a link just as you were about to click in it, and ones that slipped even the pretense and pop up and ad instead of the actual link or button the first time. I would tend to just close such sites in disgust, and told my Google feed to not give me contemt from a couple of the worst owners that recurred.
The final straw was a site that made the play embedded video function be ads the first two times on clicking it, as well as looking like that. On top of just having to give up on sites more and more.
I read that majority of Internet users now use ad blockers. That didn't used to be the case, and the large chunk of sites like this I'm sure is why.
Yep. Internet is dying. Cloud of sexless hydrogen.

Not using adblock is like not having a spam email folder.

Recipes are a laptop endeavour.

- Yay! Me too.

Edit: this is what it looks like with adblocker on. iPad mini 5 with LockDown app, and raspberry pi running pihole.

If ads annoy you as much as they annoy me, get an adblocker. But if there are sites that you use regularly, and block ads on, you might consider contributing to their patreon or whatever.

Try pasting the link in 12 foot ladder next time. Works beautifully. https://12ft.io/

Firefox has a reader mode built in. Works in mobile too. I assume it's very similar to this, it just cuts out an extra step.
- Firefox also has ublock origin support on Android.

Pihole has entered the chat.

I use an app called Recipe Keeper. It's amazing because I just share the page to the app, it extracts the recipe without any nonsense, and now I have a copy for later if I want to reuse it. I literally never bother scrolling recipe pages because of how terrible they all are, and I decide in the app if the recipe is one I want to keep.

It also bypasses paywalls and registration requirements for many sites because the recipe data is still on the page for crawlers even if it's not rendered for a normal visitor.

Yeah, that’s fine, but at some point we need to start talking about alternative methods of monetization for websites. On the one hand, compiling a list of recipies on a website and maintaining that website is not easy or cheap and the owners should be able to make money out of it. On the other hand, the user should be able to pay for this comfortably and have a nice experience on the website.
This ad model doesn’t serve any of the two, business or consumer.
- There are subscription recipe sites.
- The Internet was just fine before everything had to be monetised
- Sure, I agree.
  Unfortunately, no such solution currently exists or has been widely adopted.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.flauschcode.broccoli/
- Looks like a peach of an app. Nice recommendation.
- You shall be blessed stranger
My recipe box is another app that does the same thing. I haven't looked at a recipe website in ages

This is actually one of the biggest reasons why I prefer Android over iOS. In the case where I am forced to use iOS, I use Brave because it comes with an adblocker. Not perfect, but it's the best of a crappy situation.

Or just install an adblocker and use Safari.
- I can do that, but the adblocker (either Brave's adblocker or AdBlock Plus) is much worse than uBlock origin because it only blocks ads, not other crap like autoplaying videos, trackers, and malware.
Or just use AdGuard.
I use an iPhone and don’t see any ads and block trackers / popups. Lots of ways to block them.

That's nothing, look at this site I went to when I needed new jeans

I want a browser extension where I can press the "never again" button and all links to that domain will be marked. Then I know never to click to that search result or shared link.

I've sort of done this manually for things like Twitter with some userStyles, but it is annoying to update and haven't configured it on mobile. Kagi site-blocking is also great but only works from search results.

In Kagi, you can prioritize results from domains you trust and deprioritize or hide results from domains you don’t like.
Unlock origin has the block functionality where you can mark sites with a warning before entering, Unfortunately that "one button" part doesn't exist yet to my knowledge (leechblock might do it but I don't know)
- Yeah. It kinda works but I've already been bothered by clicking in the link. I just want to highlight the link so that I can avoid it completely.

In the address bar of the Firefox app there’s a little icon that looks like a page with some lines on it. Tap that on any page to go to reader mode. Gets rid of most of this junk with a single tap.

I loaded up a download page on a work computer recently, forgetting it didn't have adblock. My god the amount of ads was insane. There were literally about 20 ads surrounding the content with varying styles and I could actually not figure out at a glance what was the main content. I don't understand how anyone uses the internet raw anymore.

The other day sometime similar happened to me. I mean I was used to that sort of crap on some dubious downloads, but most recently it was a pretty reputable software from it's actual reputable site, and there were like a half dozen "DOWNLOAD" buttons in boxes and arrows and like a tiny actual download link. Made me research whether that site has been hijacked since I had last used it, and folks were saying it just went that way. Still very reluctant to grab it on any system I vaguely care about or keep anything remotely sensitive, since indulging in those sorts of ads destroys any twist I might have had.

Does Firefox on iPhone not allow/have extensions?

Unfortunately, no. From what I gather, any other browser on an iPhone is just Safari with a different skin.

Ad"Choices"...ugh, get stuffed.

dns.adguard-dns.com

Second this, works a treat.

There is no article.

Also cooked.wiki.. just put it in front of the url and boom. Can save your recipes on there too👌

Reader mode in browsers is great for this situation. Firefox has one for both desktop and mobile. I think brave does too

Sometimes recipe sites will have a "Print Recipe" button that gets rid of all that junk.

Or view in reading mode (Firefox)

CopyMeThat https://apps.apple.com/us/app/copy-me-that-recipe-manager/id956800243 is great. Give it the url, it extracts the recipe. It not only gets rid of the ads, but also the obligatory family history of how the recipe was brought by Nana from the old country, followed by a tedious retelling of a touching story about her. And optionally saves it to your account so you always have it. And there’s web access so you can use anywhere it and a safari extension on the Mac.

Nextcloud Recipes will do this as well. Both situations require that its in the page's metadata as a schema.org/Recipe standard json.

If you’re on an iphone you should be able to access reader mode or view. It bypasses JS and lets you view basic text and images.

I use ChatGPT for recipes. You can ask for "simple sourdough recipe for 1kg bread" and you get the same AI generated stuff with just the recipe.

based.cooking

Reminds me of this scenes from Ready Player One. Except, we don't have Holiday's ad restrictions.

The ingredient is an adblock like Ublock, bur some browsers have native adblocker or privacy settings that are enought for that. Recipe Sites are notoriously terrible.

I recently setup a pi hole, can't believe I didn't do it sooner

The mobile web is so bad these days, and it's as if every single page is like this now. It almost feels like the advertisers are just memeing on us now. They could sneak an "& Knuckles" on the page somewhere and I probably wouldn't notice.

Recipe websites are something else, eh?

Most have a 20 page story until you get to the actual recipe. Like, I don't give a damn about your life story, I just want to bake some muffins. 😂

OP, of you have a "Reading mode" on your phone's browser, it'll cut out a lot of extras and just give you the text.

Use reader mode

Blame Apple and its closed ecosystem. Fossdroid the only way these days

Just use adguard dns. Problem solved!

https://recipekeeperonline.com/

I use this to copypasta a recipe URL and get a clean version to look at.

I like it, but I'm sure there's fair criticism.

You can block all these ads just with Safari or Firefox without uBlock Origin. I haven’t seen an ad on my iPhone in like a decade.

How?
- Download Adblock / Adblock Plus / Adgaurd app. Follow the instructions in the app to add the Extension for Safari.
  For system-wide ad block in apps, use something like NextDNS. This blocks the app banners.

What’s the URL for this website? I want to test my pi-hole and see if stops those garbage ads from appearing.

Try AdGuard and Safari.

This is what I use.

I have ublock on Firefox on android and also have dns dns.adguard.com

Works great. In the past 3 years I have had to disable the dns once where functionality of a site didn't work due to it.

You making bread? Sourdough bread is the best!

Is Fennec not available for iOS, or the extension support is the problem? This is what I see, with ublock in Fennec and pihole on my router: https://ibb.co/wSYnsM0

Currently all iOS browsers are safari with custom interfaces over-the-top.

Ads, glorious ads

We’re anxious to minimize

Three ads per tab, lest my performance capsize

Does Firefox on iphone have reader view?

It does. I use it heaps.

I love Firefox, it is my desktop and android go to, but fuck apples bullshit.

Look into Orion browser, it allows you to use chrome and Firefox extensions on iOS, it does mean no easy bookmark or tab sharing, but small price to pay to be able to use the net again properly.

yall are getting recipes from articles?