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On a great many web sites I have to spend the first 60 seconds on the site clicking on "X" boxes in popups to make them go away. In many cases there are actuall
by dreamcompiler 6y ago
On a great many web sites I have to spend the first 60 seconds on the site clicking on "X" boxes in popups to make them go away. In many cases there are actually several layers of popups obscuring the content, and some are delayed so they only pop up after you start reading the content. No I do not want to subscribe to your mailing list. No I don't want to take your survey. No I do not want to "chat" with your bot-pretending-to-be-a-human. Yes this is my sixth article from you this month but I will not be paying for a subscription, because I have enough of those already. Yes cookies are OK but I want the minimal set. And no I will not disable my adblocker because doing so makes this whole bloody nightmare even worse.
Disabling Javascript makes most of this insulting crap go away, and sometimes it is the only way to read the content.
- pkulak 6y agoI just hit reader mode on FF. I didn't know modern sites would even load without JS enabled.
- pugworthy 6y agoI personally visit "a great many websites" daily, and rarely have this problem. Maybe it's uBlock doing it's job, or maybe it's the kind of site you go to?
- dreamcompiler 6y agoOr maybe I need to try uBlock again rather than assuming my Pihole is as good as it gets. Thanks for the suggestion.
- scaladev 6y agoOf course it isn't. Pihole and similar DNS-based blockers do nothing for those kinds of spam which require performing DOM manipulations to be removed. Check uBlock settings after installing it. It has a separate "annoyances" list. I enabled everything in it a few years ago and never had a single problem. It removes all the GDPR banners, "please give us your email" popups, useless "oh I am so original" plates in forum signatures, etc. etc.
- FlashBlaze 6y agoI wasn't aware of this option in settings. Thanks.
- livre 6y agoIf the default annoyances lists aren't enough for you you can also add this one[1] [1] https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
- mchusma 6y agoI've never been bothered by ads/want to support sites I visit. so never considered using javascript blockers. But I must say I hate GDPR banners and this could convert me.
- 3gg 6y agoThanks for the tip. I wasn't aware that uBlock had all those extra options.
- rusticpenn 6y agoI would suggest ublock origin instead of ublock.
- joel_ms 6y ago>In many cases there are actually several layers of popups obscuring the content, and some are delayed so they only pop up after you start reading the content. I swear I've had ones that popup as I move the mouse to close the tab.
- ghego1 6y agoThis is practically me
- HeadsUpHigh 6y agoPersonally I usr stock ublock origin and sponsorblock. Thesr 2 together work reasonably well.
- derefr 6y agoThat may have been true whenever you last evaluated your choice, but I find that today, on-load modals are mostly burned into the HTML. With Javascript disabled, rather than not being there, they're instead always there, impossible to get rid of.
- account42 6y ago> With Javascript disabled, rather than not being there, they're instead always there, impossible to get rid of. Inspect element -> remove Browsers should really add "remove element" directly to the context menu.
- dreamcompiler 6y agoAgreed. I also would like a browser that would let me automatically disable any element with a z-index greater than 1.