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It's interesting that the author would associate "frames, tables, and other fancy features" with a lack of interesting content. I assume tables are included bec
by _greim_ 4y ago
It's interesting that the author would associate "frames, tables, and other fancy features" with a lack of interesting content. I assume tables are included because they were widely misused at the time, not because tabular data wasn't interesting.
I have a button in my toolbar called "dammit" which strips away every iframe, embed, object, audio, and video from the page, multiple times per second. These are considered foundational elements in the web platform and yet, when they disappear, pages seem to magically collapse into something readable.
- ccvannorman 4y agoCan you share how this works / code snippet? Would love to add this to my "Fk the modern internet" toolset. (I also use TamperMonkey which injects client js when url patterns are matched, to get rid of annoying cookie modals.)
- _greim_ 4y agoPosting bookmarklets on the web tends to be frowned on by forum admins, so here's the raw code. (function dammit() { setTimeout(dammit, 100); let els = document.querySelectorAll('object,embed,iframe,video'); for (let el of els) { el.parentNode.removeChild(el); } })(); Feel free to make it into a bookmarklet using this guide: https://gist.github.com/caseywatts/c0cec1f89ccdb8b469b1 https://gist.github.com/caseywatts/c0cec1f89ccdb8b469b1