@futurebird
In the meantime, with Firefox at least, there's a "Reader View"[1] which will strip out the cruft and present a webpage in a nice text-only layout. Has the added benefit of getting around some things like those overlays that obscure the page if you're using an ad-blocker.

[1] Press Ctrl-Alt-R or click the little icon at the right-hand side of the address bar to switch to Reader View.