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> then "reading time indicators" (e.g. "5 min read") are added to the top of every story

Many CMSes and static site generators include this and it's genuinely useful (it matters if an article is a short read or something that needs to be saved for later because it requires 30 minutes reading). Is it really "bloat"?

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Browsers already include this feature in a coarse grained (but utterly sufficient) manner in the form of a scroll bar.

The scroll bar that some OSes hide and that cannot know if there's a massive picture or a map or 50 of them? Not nearly the same thing.

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