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I would love to have a whole browser based around Reader View. Remove the zany hip web 3.0 layouts, the fancy fonts, remove the dickbars and cookie warnings, etc. Just show me the content _without_ having to endure the original site first.

(I understand that navigating some sites would be a challenge as Reader Mode doesn't always know exactly what is cruft, and what isn't. But I don't see it as insurmountable.)

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I would like that too. You could even extract the menus from the webpage and display them in a "native" way. The big problem is that most websites will never cooperate with this, so it will always be a hack.

You can set up Safari like that, where it will, when it can render a reader view, default to that presentation.

Turning reader view on by default on my iPhone transformed how I experienced being online. So worth it. Especially as you can add sites to a non-reader (ignore) list so stuff like youtube doesn't get caught up in it.

Although it used to fully load the page then convert it to reader view which was a bit annoying on an old and increasingly sluggish iphone 6.

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