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One of the best things about ad blockers is that they are really just general purpose content blockers. Want to disable this permanently? Here's an Adblock Plus

One of the best things about ad blockers is that they are really just general purpose content blockers. Want to disable this permanently? Here's an Adblock Plus-compatible filter to block the div if you find it annoying. Tested and working on uBlock Origin: ! Disable link preview popups on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org##.mwe-popups It's just a div with the class ".mwe-popups", and using your ad blocker will persist the change after clearing cookies, which the preference setting (mentioned elsewhere here) does not. For Wikipedia in different languages, just change the subdomain in the filter.

username223 8y ago
Thank you! I found those things incredibly annoying and useless, and was just about to dig through the source to figure out how to get rid of them.
thought_alarm 8y ago
You can disable them by clicking the little gear icon on the pop up itself. I figured that out by googling aroung for half an hour. It's just wretched, backwards UI all around.
- scrooched_moose 8y ago
  As OP stated, that's tied to your cookies though and won't be a "permanent" solution.
  - mertd 8y ago
    I would expect the setting to persist if you're logged in but that's probably not something people do on Wikipedia.
    - azernik 8y ago
      I do, but that's only because I edit every once in a while.
ken 8y ago
A user stylesheet can also be a content blocker, and it doesn't require a third-party extension, and it works across all domains (Wikipedia languages): https://github.com/kengruven/config/blob/master/.calm.css#L25-L26 https://github.com/kengruven/config/blob/master/.calm.css#L2... It's frustrating that every popular webpage nowadays is so full of distractions that I can't use the web without blocking a lot of it.
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pwg 8y ago
Also, they are javascript based. They do not appear when running NoScript set to blockk wikipedia's javascript from executing.
tim333 8y ago
Or log in and click the box in preferences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...

username223 8y ago

Thank you! I found those things incredibly annoying and useless, and was just about to dig through the source to figure out how to get rid of them.

thought_alarm 8y ago

You can disable them by clicking the little gear icon on the pop up itself. I figured that out by googling aroung for half an hour. It's just wretched, backwards UI all around.

scrooched_moose 8y ago
As OP stated, that's tied to your cookies though and won't be a "permanent" solution.
- mertd 8y ago
  I would expect the setting to persist if you're logged in but that's probably not something people do on Wikipedia.
  - azernik 8y ago
    I do, but that's only because I edit every once in a while.

ken 8y ago

A user stylesheet can also be a content blocker, and it doesn't require a third-party extension, and it works across all domains (Wikipedia languages): https://github.com/kengruven/config/blob/master/.calm.css#L25-L26 https://github.com/kengruven/config/blob/master/.calm.css#L2... It's frustrating that every popular webpage nowadays is so full of distractions that I can't use the web without blocking a lot of it.

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pwg 8y ago

Also, they are javascript based. They do not appear when running NoScript set to blockk wikipedia's javascript from executing.

tim333 8y ago

Or log in and click the box in preferences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...