Show HN: Yumi Reader – Turn any article into distraction-free pure text

Category: devtools

Tags: browser-extension, readability, accessibility

Score: 5.0/10 (Innovation: 3, Technical: 4, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Yumi Reader is a browser extension that uses Mozilla's Readability library to strip ads, pop-ups, and distracting layouts from articles, presenting them in a clean, text-only view optimized for accessibility and reading comfort. It's interesting because it's a focused, research-backed implementation of a common 'reader mode' concept, with specific design choices informed by W3C standards and academic studies on readability.

Target audience: frontend devs

Repository: https://github.com/uscne/Yumi-Reader · JavaScript · MIT · 3 stars

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