[mpgarate]

This kind of problem is what led me to create http://justread.mpgarate.com/

Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read.

Source code: https://github.com/mpgarate/justread/ Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8319903

[vezycash]

Thanks man. I use it all the time. It's been a lifesaver.

I use it for sites with so tiny fonts, it's impossible to read without zooming the page.

And content sites / articles that take forever to load on my slow bandwidth.

It even helps for sites that start playing videos automatically - wasting my precious bandwidth.

[emir_]

There is a "read mode" on Firefox for desktop and Android that does this? You can set the font face and size and then every time you open an article, just click the "read mode" button and it will display the article all nice and clean. Safari does this too on desktop and iPhone.

[sabrinaleblanc]

Definitely sad that tools like this need to exist so we can read an article in peace.

[mastax]

Thank You, I've been looking for a barebones reading mode app for years, but they all want you to sign up for an account and add it to your reading list and yadda yadda. This is just what I needed.