[onetom]

It was a great article indeed, which made me deeply wonder and I will recommend it despite of the colouring.

I'm grateful to the author for discussing all these sad things in a very well reasoned way.

On the "yellow on purple" topic:

The Safari browser has a so called "Reader View". That formats (most) pages main content into a simple, very readable style.

There is also https://readability.com which is a full-blown web service tackling this problem.

And as I understood there is an open-source library integrated into Google Chrome which deals with decluttering webpages (https://github.com/chromium/dom-distiller)