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Extensions like Readability and Clearly let you read just the main content on the page. It would be nice if they had an option to automatically load pages like in that mode. Besides avoiding all the clutter websites put, the pages would also load faster that way.

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Update: There is an extension like this, called permanent readability: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/permanent-readabil...

(though I think it strips out the junk after the whole page loads.)

I'm pretty sure readability routes web pages through their service to strip them down to the main content, and restyle them. Since this processing isn't done on your machine, it would probably be slower than loading the original page. Also, a company would never invite the amount of traffic such a feature would incur.

OK so it would make more sense to use an alternative that does it in the browser, e.g. http://www.notforest.com/.

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