Brutal Reader
Strips any webpage down to just the article
Brutal Reader launched on March 10, 2026 with 98 votes, #466 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Tired of ads, popups, and sidebars hijacking every article you try to read? Brutal Reader is a free Chrome extension that strips any webpage down to just the article — clean text, warm paper, zero distractions. One click. Works on Substack, news sites, blogs, Twitter articles. Free and open source, always.
Contribute to akarshmanas/brutal-reader development by creating an account on GitHub.
No ads. No sidebars. No popups. No subscribe banners. Just the article, on warm paper. Click the extension icon on any article. The page strips down to: Works well on: Substack, news sites, blogs, Medium, and most article pages. Web pages are built to extract attention, not deliver it. Brutal Reader flips that. Load the folder via Chrome's Load unpacked or Firefox's about:debuggingfrom github.com
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