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This is great. I see: - Cookie acceptance overlay - Email prompt when switching away from tab - Push notification custom UI prompt - Push notification brows

by judah 2y ago

This is great. I see: - Cookie acceptance overlay - Email prompt when switching away from tab - Push notification custom UI prompt - Push notification browser prompt - Subscribe to our newsletter prompt - Ad blocker detected modal - Please subscribe overlay - Continue reading overlay - Ratings prompt - Floating feedback button - "How can I help you?" chat popup - Email prompt when scrolling - Create an account footer - Interstitial ads - Social media share buttons - Click to play video overlay (one that isn't available in your country) - Tab closing prompt Thinking about this problem technically, most of these obscenities are vying for top level. In the early days, browsers could detect when a popup was trying to launch and block them. Could we do something similar but for top level DOM? Alternately, could a browser have a quiet mode? No prompts, banners, overlays, etc. Just thinking out loud.

staplers 2y ago
Could we do something similar but for top level DOM? It's called "reader mode" on most browsers.
- judah 2y ago
  Yeah, but it doesn't work for 90% of the sites I try it on. And some sites, especially news sites, deliberately break it. Seems to me reader mode is a great idea but needs some dynamic behavior so sites can't break it.
- ravenstine 2y ago
  Sadly, development of reader mode seems to be stagnant for both Firefox and Chrome. While it works for a substantial number of pages, I was hoping that more pages would work as years go by. Too bad that doesn't appear to have happened.
- neilv 2y ago
  Unfortunately, Firefox Reader Mode bypasses your uBlock Origin, so you get violated by trackers. IIRC, this `about:config` setting is how I disable Firefox Reader Mode: `reader.parse-on-load.enabled` = false
- graypegg 2y ago
  One interesting thing I noticed after updating to iOS 18 specifically, is the removal of reader mode as a "mode". It's now OFFERED to you in the new view menu based on some heuristic about the page that Apple has determined, but it's not a mode you can turn on regardless of if Apple thinks you're on a "readable" document or not. Frustrating since their "remove distracting elements" feature was a great value-add, done in the same update.

by judah 2y ago

staplers 2y ago

Could we do something similar but for top level DOM? It's called "reader mode" on most browsers.

judah 2y ago
Yeah, but it doesn't work for 90% of the sites I try it on. And some sites, especially news sites, deliberately break it. Seems to me reader mode is a great idea but needs some dynamic behavior so sites can't break it.
ravenstine 2y ago
Sadly, development of reader mode seems to be stagnant for both Firefox and Chrome. While it works for a substantial number of pages, I was hoping that more pages would work as years go by. Too bad that doesn't appear to have happened.
neilv 2y ago
Unfortunately, Firefox Reader Mode bypasses your uBlock Origin, so you get violated by trackers. IIRC, this `about:config` setting is how I disable Firefox Reader Mode: `reader.parse-on-load.enabled` = false
graypegg 2y ago
One interesting thing I noticed after updating to iOS 18 specifically, is the removal of reader mode as a "mode". It's now OFFERED to you in the new view menu based on some heuristic about the page that Apple has determined, but it's not a mode you can turn on regardless of if Apple thinks you're on a "readable" document or not. Frustrating since their "remove distracting elements" feature was a great value-add, done in the same update.