Show HN: No ads and noise from any page, get a clean AI reformat in one click
A Chrome extension called Clean Web Summarizer uses the DeepSeek V4 Flash API to remove ads and noise from web pages, reformatting them into cleaner, more readable layouts with images preserved if desired. It also supports translating page content into other languages like Chinese.
Background
- This is a "Show HN" post on Hacker News — a site where tech builders share side projects for feedback.
- A Chrome extension is a small program that runs inside the Google Chrome browser and adds new features.
- DeepSeek v4 Flash is a very cheap AI model made by a Chinese company (DeepSeek). The creator uses it as a way to rewrite web pages without ads or clutter — not to summarize in the traditional sense, but to reflow the content into a cleaner layout.
- Many "reader mode" extensions already exist (e.g., Mercury Reader, Readability), but they strip content using fixed rules. The twist here is using an LLM (large language model) to do it, which can also translate the page into another language as a side effect.
- "Almost FREE" is important because running AI models on every page load could get expensive; the chosen model is unusually cheap per query.