When the community discussed the need to have some app to strip websites of all the annoying visual garbage on them, wham! A bunch of different really cool site

When the community discussed the need to have some app to strip websites of all the annoying visual garbage on them, wham! A bunch of different really cool sites do that now. Does anbody know what he is referring to? Does he simply mean instapaper, readability and the likes, or are there some other interesting solutions out there?