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Show HN: ekill – Like xkill, but for annoying web page elements
- Zekio 8y agoWell if you already use uBlock Origin you have multiple mode like this all with possible custom hotkeys if you want something like this
- dikiaap 8y agoAnd if you want to hide the cookie notices, just check Fanboy’s Cookiemonster List in the Annoyances section.
- pmontra 8y agoThanks. I use it a lot to hide sticky menus, the open in app button of sites hosted on Medium and more or less everything that wastes space on the screen of my phone.
- 1999 8y agoI had a bookmarklet that did this that I've lost ... I'm interested in it if anyone here has it.
- sp332 8y agoFor Firefox, there's Nuke Anything Enhanced https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nuke-anything-enhanced https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nuke-anything... The removals are temporary though. There used to be an addon called "Remove it permanently", but I guess it didn't make the transition to a web extension. For a general slide-in/pop-up blocker, try Kill It https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-it/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-it/
- thedailymail 8y agoThanks for this! I've been using Kill Sticky https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ and am now looking forward to an expanded arsenal in the fight against anti-human web elements.
- gruez 8y ago>There used to be an addon called "Remove it permanently", isn't that just adding it as a ABP/ublock filter?
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- egonschiele 8y ago<3 this idea!
- Myrmornis 8y agoI've been happy to discover that AdBlock can be used to do this, though perhaps less slickly than this extension.
- scrollaway 8y agoIf you're using ublock origin on Chromium, you already have this. Go to chrome://extensions/shortcuts and set a shortcut on "Enter element zapper mode". I set it to ctrl+shift+q because I kept accidentally closing my browser and I needed something to override it ...
- daveFNbuck 8y agoThis is nice because uBlock Origin is available for multiple browsers.
- scrollaway 8y agoYou're right! Please feel free to add instructions for Firefox if you know how, I suspect it's similar.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoIt's available as an add-on. You can find it by searching in the add-ons manager (cmd+shift+A in osx). This brings you to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin where you can click to install. I recommend searching for it on your own through the built-in mechanism rather than trusting a link provided by a stranger.
- scrollaway 8y agoI meant instructions for the relevant keyboard shortcut.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoOh, I just use the mouse. It's fast enough for me.
- pmontra 8y agoFirefox Android with uBlock: open the 3 dots menu, uBlock Origin, touch the picker, go to the tab with the element to hide, touch it, touch preview, confirm. Sometimes it's necessary to select parent elements in the DOM list it displays: it's faster than trying to pick the right element with the finger.
- xrd 8y agoIt doesn't kill the clock in my toolbar on osx. That's what I came for.
- chki 8y agoI'm not sure why you thought that would be possible, as it says "web elements" in the title.
- muthdra 8y agoI'm using it on Android and it's not killing the robocalls I often receive. That's what I came for.
- rhardih 8y agoI use it to feed my pet rock and now it's never hungry!
- xrd 8y agoI assumed people would get the joke but most must not have clicked through to the explanation of xkill which is all about killing the desktop clock. I'll make sure to surround a dangerous comment like that in <joke> tags next time.
- mkingston 8y agoFor any tridactyl (https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl) users out there: ;k
- dmos62 8y agoGreat idea. I found Saka Key [0], an extension (Chrome and Firefox) for general re/binding of keyboard shortcuts, similar to the various vim extensions, but more general, though it has two vim variants amongst the binding templates. Seems well done. I've felt dissappointed by the other vim extensions. Maybe I'll be able to bind the ublock origin zapper. [0] https://key.saka.io/ https://key.saka.io/
- amelius 8y agoThe web-application can tell when you have deleted elements (and in some cases might even crash, and perhaps even deliberately). How this should really work is by maintaining two DOMs, one which the application sees, and one which the user sees.
- rhardih 8y ago> This is half-baked Half baked is an understatement, but I guess it works sorta-ok for a half-day project. Pull requests are very welcome though!
- fiatjaf 8y agoUse http://prebake.eu/ http://prebake.eu/ for uBlock Origin on Firefox.
- nopslides 8y agoTo anybody wondering, the link in parent is for a filtering list that blocks annoying EU cookie notifications on websites. I had been wishing for this so thanks for sharing.