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I fall for a click-bait Web page title and then have to fight off various overlays and popups, maybe change the window size to see the 'X' to close some popup,

I fall for a click-bait Web page title and then have to fight off various overlays and popups, maybe change the window size to see the 'X' to close some popup, then get some long, nearly irrelevant and worthless, content with no connection to the title, .... So, now, fool me again, and shame on me, so I do what is necessary to close the window, leave the Web site, even if I have to kill my Web browser to do it. Ah, Darwin will fix it! Besides, looks like help for the Web site of my startup -- no popups, no overlays, no cookies, no distracting, interrupting, legalistic warming about cookies, e.g., I'm given an advantage!

taspeotis 2y ago
I have uBlock Origin and I see no such things. Are you rawdogging the internet without an ad blocker?
- graycat 2y ago
  Thanks! Have delayed all extra software from wanting a trusted source and concerned that might get some system management problems. Just found https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ It's via Mozilla so maybe is as safe as the rest of Firefox, JavaScript, or whatever it uses, etc. Thanks!
  - LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago
    You should look into the homepage linked from there https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock because that's were it's really from, and not some recommendation via. Especially their Wiki, because that contains really useful information, how to handle more advanced stuff, which can't really be done 'automagically' for all sorts of websites. Maybe even their reddit also linked from the mozilla site, though I'm guessing you're not fond of the latter. You could also consider using https://librewolf.net/ https://librewolf.net/ instead of Firefox, because that's built and delivered with much desired settings, while the undesired stuff is left out. Which you'd have otherwise to setup manually, put together piece-wise from countless different places, because there is no place who has it all. By the way, they have their own redddit, too. Which leads to less hassle with system management problems. Not to speak of being delivered with uBlock Origin out of the box. Works really well for me, and I'm picky, because I've grown bored with systems management problems, too ;)
    - graycat 2y ago
      Thanks! On a frustating day I call some of the system management problems "mud wrestling", or, due to lack of good documentation, just throw it up against the wall a dozen different ways to see what seems to stick -- and with that nonsense hope to be running a reliable server???? Yup, "chaotic world".

taspeotis 2y ago

I have uBlock Origin and I see no such things. Are you rawdogging the internet without an ad blocker?

graycat 2y ago
Thanks! Have delayed all extra software from wanting a trusted source and concerned that might get some system management problems. Just found https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ It's via Mozilla so maybe is as safe as the rest of Firefox, JavaScript, or whatever it uses, etc. Thanks!
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago
  You should look into the homepage linked from there https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock because that's were it's really from, and not some recommendation via. Especially their Wiki, because that contains really useful information, how to handle more advanced stuff, which can't really be done 'automagically' for all sorts of websites. Maybe even their reddit also linked from the mozilla site, though I'm guessing you're not fond of the latter. You could also consider using https://librewolf.net/ https://librewolf.net/ instead of Firefox, because that's built and delivered with much desired settings, while the undesired stuff is left out. Which you'd have otherwise to setup manually, put together piece-wise from countless different places, because there is no place who has it all. By the way, they have their own redddit, too. Which leads to less hassle with system management problems. Not to speak of being delivered with uBlock Origin out of the box. Works really well for me, and I'm picky, because I've grown bored with systems management problems, too ;)
  - graycat 2y ago
    Thanks! On a frustating day I call some of the system management problems "mud wrestling", or, due to lack of good documentation, just throw it up against the wall a dozen different ways to see what seems to stick -- and with that nonsense hope to be running a reliable server???? Yup, "chaotic world".