Last updated on 12 May 2026
Web pages are often cluttered with unhelpful content that interferes with the reader's concentration. In addition to concentration, these complex layouts also impair the clarity of the main text.
Here are five extensions for the Chrome browser that will allow you to clean up and get the bulk of an article published on the web. Five extensions that will offer you a better reading of the articles and also if you want to print, clean paper outputs, without advertisements or frills.
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Reader View
Reader View is a very simple extension. Once installed in your browser, you will be able to transform the content of any web page into text that is optimised for reading. All this is done with a simple click.
Link: Reader View
Mercury Reader
Mercury Reader is arguably the most popular of these extensions that make it easy to eliminate visual pollution when reading an article on the web. Very complete, it allows you to change the size of characters or share extracts of content on social networks. Also convenient, Mercury Reader allows you to send an article directly to your Kindle e-reader for a more comfortable reading of long articles.
Link: Mercury Reader
MagicScroll Web Reader
This other extension also transforms a web page into a text that is easy to read and print. With Magic Scroll, the content of an article on a site will be presented in the form of sorts of book pages that you will then be able to turn with a click.
Link: MagicScroll Reader
Just Read
Just Read plays simplicity. No frills, no complicated options. Once installed on your Chrome browser, Just Read will remove comments, styles, advertisements and other web layout components with one click to provide you with a minimalist but particularly readable version of the article text.
Link: Just Read
Clean Print
Clean Print as the name suggests will allow you to get your own impressions of an article found on a web page. With this extension installed you will be able to eliminate any unnecessary graphic elements at the time of printing. The extension also removes passages from the text. Ideal for obtaining clean documents and saving your printer ink in the process.
Link: Clean Print
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