These are simple systems that let you easily save an article in a form that strips out the adverts you can then read if later (or right away, for that matter) without being troubled by all the visual tomfoolery. If you decide you don’t want to install an ad blocker, an alternative solution is to use a read-later service.

The two suggested above –ĪdGuard – are both able to deal with adverts in Chrome. Many well known ad blockers are browser-agnostic, fortunately. (Google has publicly discussed something similar called Distill Mode, but there’s no straightforward way for Mac users to turn this on without recourse to extensions.)

Click this and then ensure that the top option reads ‘Blocked (recommended)’ and that the switch is turned off.Īs with Safari, Chrome won’t actually block adverts for you – and there isn’t an easily accessed equivalent of Reader mode. Now scroll down again and look for the Pop-ups and redirects.Below the heading ‘Privacy and security’, click the option Content settings.Note that if you have a website that is already defaulting to Off then you won’t see it in Reader mode. Set this to On and Reader will be activated by default on all compatible web pages. At the bottom of this page you’ll see the option: ‘When visiting other websites’.

As above go to Safari > Preferences and choose Reader.

You can actually set Reader mode to be the default option on any website that supports it! Here’s how: How to use Reader mode all the time on Safari Select the website you want to default to Reader mode and click the menu to the right of it and select On (or Off if you don’t want it to use Reader mode). You’ll see a list of all the websites currently open and any you have configured to use Reader. You can also remove domains from, and add them to, the Reader list in Safari’s Preferences page.

Under the heading ‘When visiting this website’, put a tick next to ‘Use Reader when available’.

When you’re on a site you want to give this treatment, go to Safari > Settings for This Website (or you can right-click the URL box and choose Settings for This Website). Here’s how to set reader mode up for certain websites:

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