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I've been blocking elements via ad blockers / Brave for years. What I really wish was a way to subscribe to a list of common elements to block: Distracting vid
by gwbas1c 2y ago
I've been blocking elements via ad blockers / Brave for years.
What I really wish was a way to subscribe to a list of common elements to block: Distracting videos, content that shows up when you highlight text, ect. Maybe even block stuff like this by default, kind of like blocking popups.
(I also think a lot of the lower-level APIs should require some oversight, like intercepting right-click, manipulating the clipboard, ect. IE, at a minimum, these actions should also be treated like popups and disabled by default.)
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- PlunderBunny 2y agoI have also done this with an ad-blocker on a few occasions, but I often find it doesn't work reliably. I'm not sure why - the ad-blocker I'm using (1Blocker on macOS and iOS) seems to use something to identify the element that changes occasionally. My very limited experience of ad-blockers is also that, when you enable the "point-to-the-thing-to-remove mode", it first reloads the page without certain information that would normally be present (e.g. the reloaded page is 'logged out'). It will be interesting to see if Apple has solved both these problems.
- crtasm 2y agouBlock Origin has a few 'Annoyances' lists that you can enable in the settings, e.g. Fanboy's list on https://easylist.to/ https://easylist.to/