MinnPost in-article ad survives Safari Reader!

Some MinnPost.com templates, like Braublog’s, do not even offer the Safari Reader button (UPDATE: Okay, button shows up today. Weird?).  But others do. On one template, we publish a 300×250 banner ad within the articles, like this one by Beth Hawkins (screenshot of Reader-view above).

I was very surprised that the ad is displayed within the Reader-rendered page. Safari Reader will sometimes zap editorial images on other articles that I have tested. But this ad position survived.

From Apple:

Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles. So you get the whole story and nothing but the story.

So does this mean that Safari Reader has logic that actually tests to see if the ad is annoying or not, and the ad on the MinnPost.com 300×250 ad is deemed NOT ANNOYING?

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