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Dozens of American News Sites Blocked in Europe as GDPR Goes Into Effect Today

The European Union’s digital privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), officially went into effect today. But some websites in the U.S. have decided to block their services entirely rather than adhere to the new regulations. Dozens of American newspapers are currently blocked in Europe and web services like Instapaper have suspended…

Instapaper Is Blocking Users in Europe Until It Figures Out New Privacy Rules [Update: It’s Back]

Instapaper has informed its European users that it will temporarily cut off their access to the platform starting today. The reason? This Pinterest-owned service needs more than the two years it had to comply with the European Union’s new batch of privacy rules that go into effect on May 25. Sorry, Europe! Here’s the message…

10 Tricks to Make Yourself an Instapaper Master

Good news: the best read-it-later service, Instapaper, is now giving away premium features for free, which means most of us have got a whole bunch of new goodies to play around with. Here are ten of Instapaper’s best features you might not know about. 1. Search through articles in a snap  If you can’t remember…

Pinterest Bought Instapaper and That Makes Me Nervous

Pinterest, the site beloved by wedding planners and doomsday preppers alike, has acquired the original read later service, Instapaper. This sort of makes sense, I guess, considering that both Instapaper and Pinterest are essentially bookmarking services. Instapaper just tends to be about text, and Pinterest is all about the image. This is Instapaper’s third owner.…

How to Finally Catch Up on Your Read-It-Later Backlog

The internet’s a big place and growing all the time—it’s no surprise that many of us rely on a read-it-later tool to stockpile articles and posts we just don’t have time to get to immediately. That’s fine, to a point, but these reading lists can quickly spiral out of control to daunting lengths. Get everything…

Facebook Adds a Save Button Since There’s Too Much Crap on Your News Feed

Over the years, Facebook has slowly morphed from a voyeur’s wet dream into what is now essentially a popularity-based RSS feed. And since there’s only so many listicles one can read in a day, Facebook just added a “Save” feature that compiles all your readables for viewing at your leisure. Just click the little arrow…

Report: Facebook Testing Instapaper-Style “Save For Later” Button

Tech blog MyTechSkool has pictures of an alleged new feature being tested in Facebook, where users can bookmark articles from the newsfeed for later reading. As described by MyTechSkool, the feature saves the actual article, rather than the Facebook post containing it, to a new Saved Links tab. It can also indicate on your timeline…

You don’t have to open Instapaper for the read-it-later app to update anymore—the iOS version of the app now automatically adds your saved articles in the background.

The New Instapaper: Reading Later in iOS 7 Will Be Sleeker and Simpler

A few months back, Instapaper was acquired by Betaworks, better known as the folks who bought Digg and rescued it from a hell of disuse. Tomorrow, the company is launching an overhauled version of Instapaper concurrently with Apple’s iOS 7 launch. Here’s a look at the new, flatter, easier-to-use Instapaper. https://gizmodo.com/instapaper-was-just-bought-by-the-same-company-that-bou-5995402 Note: In each comparison,…

The Company That Bought Digg Just Made Instapaper Beautiful on the Web

Betaworks, the company that resurrected Digg and bought Instapaper, didn’t waste any time giving Instapaper a makeover. A beautiful redesign of the Instapaper site just went live. https://gizmodo.com/instapaper-was-just-bought-by-the-same-company-that-bou-5995402 Changes to the mobile apps are coming soon, but for now the difference is with the main desktop version. The changes to the formerly barebones site are…

On Using Your iPhone Abroad Without Getting Totally Screwed

When I stepped off the plane in Mexico I got that sinking feeling. My iPhone wasn’t going to work. I mean it was, but, you know, it’s expensive to use a cell phone abroad. It’s even more expensive to use a smartphone abroad. A few years ago, I took a work trip to Paris and…

Instapaper Was Just Bought By the Same Company That Bought Digg (Updated)

Betaworks, the company that rescued Digg from the toilet, has just bought a majority stake in Instapaper from its founder Marco Arment. The biggest question is what will become of Instapaper, which rose to the top amongst the many bookmarking/mobile reader apps because of its superior design and engineering. Digg was acquired at what seemed…

Instapaper Founder Starts an iPad Magazine Called, uh, The Magazine

Instapaper, one of the best things to happen to digital reading, has now spawned an iPad magazine, called The Magazine. Besides having a clever title, it’s edited by a clever dude, Instapaper founder Marco Arment. But will it be any good? The Magazine is available now through the app store for $2. According to Arment’s…

Instapaper Is Finally on Android

Android’s getting all the pretty toys lately. A few weeks after finally getting in on Instagram, Android finally has its own official Instapaper client. It’s available for $3 in the Google Play store, and looks a whole lot like the iOS version, though your purchase doesnt seem to carry over if you own the app…

Don’t Expect a Ton of Retina-Level iPad Apps Today

It’s iPad Day! Hurray! All your favorite iPad apps, made retina-displayable! Hurr—not so fast. If what Instapaper godfather and iOS dev guru Marco Arment says is true, we might be waiting just a bit longer before we see many retina-caliber apps making their way onto the new iPad. Arment has been sending Instapaper data to…

The New Instapaper Is a More Essential Download Than Ever

Instapaper, the cure for having a hundred tabs open in your browser, just got a huge 4.0 update featuring better social integration, a new search service and a sleek new look. The biggest addition to the app is the new server-side search service, which for $1 a month allows you to search the entirety of…

How iOS 5 Neuters Instapaper (and Other Offline Apps)

For all the talk about the cloud—”i” or otherwise—a lot of the best apps are the ones that let you work offline almost as efficiently as when you’re online. iOS 5 is making that a lot harder to do. Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, brings up a potentially pain-in-the-assey iCloud-based change in iOS 5.…

Paper Mache Is Instapaper Soup for the TouchPad Soul

The TouchPad filled our hearts with sand and aching—a crushing disappointment. But we love Instapaper, so if you put the latter into the former, things would be a bit better, right? Yeah! Paper Mache does just that. https://gizmodo.com/hp-touchpad-review-unbreak-my-heart-5816916 There’s nothing quite like some Read Later action to make you feel good about a tablet, and…

Mac OS X Lion’s Safari Reading List Competing Directly with Instapaper

This Reading List feature looks even cooler with the latest build of Lion. One 9to5 Mac reader found out that webpages saved using the tool are synced with iOS devices. This makes using Instapaper on your iPad pretty redundant. As you may already know, Instapaper is a great little app for iOS and Kindle that…

Here’s Something to Read: The Best Magazine Features of the Year, All Ready for Instapaper

A handy compilation by longform.org: The 2011 National Magazine Awards Finalists in feature writing, all with handy Instapaper links. Plenty to read. [Longform]