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- modern websites that feature articles are ironically difficult to read because of the page design
- advertisements and novel page designs make the end goal counterintuitive
- 'reader views' aim to remove clutter and provide a focused reading experience
- 'reader apps' aim to create a focused reading experience from bookmarks
- RSS feeds provide 'just the content' with no cruft
- present text with minimal clutter in the visual sense for humans
- present text with minimal clutter in the HTML sense for machines to parse the text content
- convert to markdown and back to html as a cheap strategy to clear many stylistic elements