
Reading in Comfort: On Postlight Reader
Catalyst Podcast
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How Post-Light Reader Works
Post-light reader works after ads have been fired and the page has. And so it goes through every single thing that's loaded on your browser one at a time and decides whether to remove them or keep them. Post-light reader is smart enough to know that this particular thing that the page says is a headline is actually the title of your article. It gets rid of all the other stuff. What else goes into a better reading experience? Sometimes a font is chosen because it looks nice and not necessarily because it's nice to read. Things like line height, tracking and letting and all of the typography stuff that we are we know it when we see it when it's working.
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