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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[–] 9 points 3 months ago

I think OP is asking how the browser figures out what is the important content to display in reader mode and what's the cruft that can be dropped.

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