I tried googling and I got a lot of hits for what reader mode does and how to enable it, but nobody can explain what the browser is actually doing.

Do sites have pared-down versions of their pages specifically for reader mode? Or does the browser just scan for particular HTML tags?

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago

It's both. The browsers can do it automatically by detecting the content from the page, but the site can also use specific HTML as a sort of instructions for the browser m.

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