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What If Your Browser Could Just Ask for Markdown?

Every website you visit today sends you a pile of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — even if all you wanted was to read a blog post. Your browser downloads layout grids, tracking scripts, cookie banners, and font files before you see a single paragraph of text. For a 2000-word article, the actual content might be 12 KB. Everything around it: 2 MB.

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