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While we're pointing out dumb fads, how about the video player and other pointless crap that popped up on the screen and blocked part of the article. A purposel

• gbear605 8y ago
  This was one of the slowest to load pages that I've seen in a while (no ad block). I usually use a bookmarklet to kill dumb popups that scroll with you[1], and I actually had to update it[2] for this page, since this page used `position: sticky` instead of `position: fixed` for one thing. [1]: javascript:(function(){(function () {var i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *');for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {if (getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed') {elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);}}})()})() [2]: javascript:(function(){(function () {var i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *');for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {if (getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'sticky') {elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);}}})()})()
• ben509 8y ago
  You knows it's purposeful when they've obfuscated the CSS selectors: ##.ArticlePage__isOpen__1YrKK.ArticlePage__mustWatchContainer__1fa3e