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In my experience, most adblock blockers take a lazy approach - it's just a piece of JS loaded together with the main document. So it's ridiculously easy to prot

In my experience, most adblock blockers take a lazy approach - it's just a piece of JS loaded together with the main document. So it's ridiculously easy to protect against: just switch off JS with a click and you can read the page in question. Of course it works for documents only - if you need to use an app, things are much trickier and you need to dig up a bit to understand which script you have to block.

swiley 8y ago
Usually you don’t even need that, they just cover the page with a div that you can delete in inspector.
- andai 8y ago
  This is a very useful skill. I run into a surprising number of pages where invisible elements prevent you from continuing (unintentionally, eg payment forms). Also that crap on the bottom of every Medium article.
  - boomlinde 8y ago
    ... and the top... and the sides...
- namibj 8y ago
  Or zap with uBlock origin
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
  That's at least two clicks. Disabling JS with a plugin like disable-HTML is one click.
- nmca 8y ago
  "kill sticky" is amazing for this. One click gets most annoying stuff. https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
- xioxox 8y ago
  There's also this bookmarklet which deletes fixed elements (unfortunately I don't know the original author): javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20<%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()
  - pgl 8y ago
    Author is Alisdair McDiarmid: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
andai 8y ago
Due to bandwidth constraints I surfed with images and JS disabled (safari developer options) and oh my god what an improvement it was. No trackers. No ads. No auto-playing video. No newsletter pop ups. No cookie notices. This was GDPR but I imagine that would be gone on most sites too. I'll probably switch back soon. I long for the speed, the elegance...

swiley 8y ago

Usually you don’t even need that, they just cover the page with a div that you can delete in inspector.

andai 8y ago
This is a very useful skill. I run into a surprising number of pages where invisible elements prevent you from continuing (unintentionally, eg payment forms). Also that crap on the bottom of every Medium article.
- boomlinde 8y ago
  ... and the top... and the sides...
namibj 8y ago
Or zap with uBlock origin
dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
That's at least two clicks. Disabling JS with a plugin like disable-HTML is one click.
nmca 8y ago
"kill sticky" is amazing for this. One click gets most annoying stuff. https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
xioxox 8y ago
There's also this bookmarklet which deletes fixed elements (unfortunately I don't know the original author): javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20<%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()
- pgl 8y ago
  Author is Alisdair McDiarmid: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

andai 8y ago

Due to bandwidth constraints I surfed with images and JS disabled (safari developer options) and oh my god what an improvement it was. No trackers. No ads. No auto-playing video. No newsletter pop ups. No cookie notices. This was GDPR but I imagine that would be gone on most sites too. I'll probably switch back soon. I long for the speed, the elegance...