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Back in the days of Netscape 4 (I think), this is what I did. I’m not sure if it was CSS or just some custom browser applied styling defaults, but I found it difficult to read pages in all different styles so I had the browser make them all the same.

There are ‘readability’ plugins and services for browsers that attempt to provide this service for current sites. These days it’s a bit more complicated than just overriding a few styles to make a page ‘standardised’.

The plugins / services work for maybe 99% of pages I look at. Unfortunately I don’t know how to view the whole web through such a lens, without having to activate for each page.




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