Chrome’s experimental reader mode, Distill, has been around since long before Windows 10, but it’s still not made it into Chrome proper. However, you can enable it with a secret tweak.
With Chrome closed, right-click its taskbar shortcut, right-click Google Chrome in the list, and then click Properties. Click inside the ‘Target:’ text box, press End, type a space, and then type --enable-dom-distiller (see screenshot below). Click Apply, then OK. Now when you open Chrome and click the menu icon (three dots), you’ll find a new ‘Distill page’ entry. Click it to reload the current page without the clutter. There are no customisation options, but it’s a start.
Alternatively, use a Chrome extension. Free, new, open-source tool Just Read (www.snipca.com/27795) lets you remove blocks of text that you find distracting,…
