A reading surface should retrieve the document, preserve its evidence, and get out of the way.
Give me the document
The modern article page frequently behaves as though the act of reading were a systems failure to be corrected. It interrupts, reflows, autoplays, obscures, and measures. The document becomes the least powerful object on its own page.
Lynx again reverses that priority. The requested document is primary. Publisher chrome becomes metadata. Advertising and engagement machinery become an extraction count. Nothing removed gets to disappear without leaving a receipt.
Source outranks extraction. The cleaned copy never masquerades as the original.
Extraction, not interpretation
The reader preserves headings, paragraph order, quotations, lists, captions, links, corrections, disclosures, and citations. It does not summarize the page, improve its tone, infer missing claims, or decide what deserves attention.
Machine assistance may identify document regions or repair a broken heading hierarchy. Any transformed language must remain visibly marked and separately toggleable. The default act is retrieval.
A calmer contract
- No recommendation feed.
- No infinite scroll.
- No autoplay.
- No fake urgency.
- No sexuality oracle interrupting an article about wristwatches.
The tool indicates. The reader ratifies. The source remains one keystroke away.