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So, what’s new?
The main change is the integration with the sidebar. Looking at the early versions of this feature, we can read a cleaned-up version of web pages (no ads, and other features, simple text and images view) on the sidebar.
Before I show you that, here is the flag that enables the feature:
Read Anything: Enables the Read Anything feature which generates a reader-friendly view of web pages. Open the side panel and select Read Anything to try the feature.
There is one more related flag:
Read Anything with Screen2x: Have Read Anything use a local machine learning model for web page distillation.
Now, here is an early look at this feature.
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