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I have yet to see an adblocker, that removes embedded text that came with the page, like the old days of Google. Maybe that could be a direction.
by amaccuish 8y ago
I have yet to see an adblocker, that removes embedded text that came with the page, like the old days of Google. Maybe that could be a direction.
- thinkingemote 8y agoCould you elaborate, I'm not sure what you are describing.
- amaccuish 8y agoI.e. when a website just sticks pure text in <p> in a page, no images, maybe just an <a> for further info. Not HTML5 taking up 2/3s of the page, flashing and jumping about etc.
- HenryBemis 8y agoI am using Firefox with AdBlockPlus (older version that supports the -->), and one extra add-on called "Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus" [1]. This extra add-on doesn't block, but merely hides bits and pieces of the page. It mostly use it to cut-out/hide all "Related/Suggested" columns and tables, so when one article loads, I only see that on the page and nothing else. [1]: https://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper https://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper
- bscphil 8y agoIncidentally, uBlock origin has this feature built in. uBlock is also better respected than ABP these days I believe, though of course you're free to use whatever addon you prefer.
- pdkl95 8y agoThat's been available in popular adblockers for almost as long as adblockers have existed[1]. https://adblockplus.org/filters#elemhide https://adblockplus.org/filters#elemhide https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-filters https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f... [1] Before browser based adblockers existed (late 1990s), we used to use filtering proxies like Privoxy (formerly Internet Junkbuster). Of course, at the time, text filtering was usually Perl regex instead of CSS selectors.