You're Never Gonna Read That

Placebopaper: a distraction-free and reading-free experience for your favorite web content

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Opera GX version coming soon.

Why Choose Placebopaper?

Don't Read Anywhere

Don't read content across all your devices

Distraction-Free

The latest innovation in distraction-free reading: not reading at all

Organized

The latest AI models automatically tag all of your content under 'won't read'

Fast & Simple

All of the dopamine from clicking, with none of the big words

Our Story

Placebopaper was born from a simple observation: we all save articles we never read. Instead of fighting this natural tendency, we embraced it.

Our mission is to provide a guilt-free space for your digital hoarding, complete with all the features you'd expect from a premium reading service - except the actual reading part.

Founded in 1999 at the hight of the dot-com bubble, we're committed to helping you build the perfect collection of unread articles, one click at a time.

1M+

Articles "Saved"

$50M

Venture Funding

Articles Read

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Free

Don't read up to 100 articles
Basic not-reading features
You miss out on that "spending money feeling"

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Premium

$4.99/month

Don't read unlimited articles
Advanced not-reading features
More room in your wallet every month
Priority support from infinite chatbots

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Enterprise

Custom

We don't even know what an enterprise version would be
And we don't think it really makes sense for an app like this
But if you ask for it, we'll say large numbers to you until you say yes

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Secretly think this is almost a good idea?

Yes, this site is a joke. But the problem it pokes fun at—saving great web content only to never return to it—is all too real. That's why we're building Read More Later (ReadML for short), a very real app.

Does it send mixed signals to announce this inside a spoof marketing site? Definitely. Are we doing it anyway? Absolutely.

ReadML is the first AI-native read-later app. It doesn't just store your saved articles—it actually reads them. Then, when the timing's right, it resurfaces the perfect piece from your ever-growing backlog. The goal? Help you actually read the things you love, instead of letting them vanish into the digital void.

Want in? Join the waitlist to be among the first to try ReadML.

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