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Originally Posted by Laurens
Printable versions usually have no navigation or banner images and contain the entire article. Many NYT articles, for instance, are split across multiple pages in the "normal" version, requiring multiple requests to obtain them in their entirety.
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What did these "big sites" have to say about your users, through the use of your software, depriving them of their advertiser revenue by bypassing their banner ads and other advertising resources when deep-linking to their print-only pages?
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Sunrise goes to great lengths to reduce bandwidth usage.
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Incidentally, your tool (v0.41f) completely ignores robots.txt, which makes adhering to Entity Tags, Last-Modified, Cache-Control, and so on... basically irrelevant as far as bandwidth savings go. Your tool blindly allows slamming a site for content as fast as possible over and over and over until it has it all, or exhausts maximum fetch depth.
While I think its valuable for Windows users, it has a long way to go before it can compete with high-quality tools that follow Web and Internet standards.
Keep working on it, you'll get there.