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I recently found this out the hard way. Instagram’s web app has a super annoying popup. To click the comments button for a post, your cursor has to pass over th

I recently found this out the hard way. Instagram’s web app has a super annoying popup. To click the comments button for a post, your cursor has to pass over the username, which just happens to launch a profile preview with the “follow” button exactly where the comments button was, causing you to unintentionally follow the account. I tried to block this popup with uBlock Origin to no avail. No matter what element I selected, it was still there. Finally fixed the problem by deleting my Instagram account.

greenleafone7 2mo ago
Best move you could have possibly done.
srcnkcl 2mo ago
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”
zenoprax 2mo ago
A counter example: I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday but it turns out uBlock can filter out the ads, boilerplate, sidebars, join/login buttons etc on the main site. It's actually faster and more usable than the old site now. Small win.
- dayone1 2mo ago
  How do you filter it out? Do you select each element individually?
  - zenoprax 1mo ago
    Yes, the Element Picker in uBlock Origin. Requires Firefox because of Web Manifest stuff in Chromium.
- m348e912 2mo ago
  >I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday It appears to still be up for me. ??
  - esseph 2mo ago
    Not sure there's been a hard date publicly set but they are sunsetting it
  - kotaKat 2mo ago
    It's A/B tested across IP ranges, geolocated regions, etc. I got it super early and it sucks being locked out for the past 2-3 weeks now.
  - shawn_w 2mo ago
    You now have to be logged in to reddit to use it.
  - spidercat 2mo ago
    "anonymous" is the key word. old.reddit still works (though it seems to get progressively jankier), but it's now requiring a login.
    - chokma 2mo ago
      It was activated for my region yesterday and it did wonders for breaking my reddit addiction. Then I tried the normal view and ... wow, so many auto-playing video ads disguised as regular posts.
    - KennyBlanken 1mo ago
      Reading the claim that they're requiring login to old.reddit.com "for safety" made me laugh out loud. When are they going to admit that the redesign sucks and there's a reason everyone keeps loading the old reddit interface? Who has the ego that can't handle the truth, that their UI/UX design is garbage and loathed? The random phrases turned into links that are never helpful means I can't trust any link in comments now, there's that stupid AI box that never has useful or helpful info, conversations are a nightmare to try and read through. I will never understand how it is that a site which exists almost entirely for conversations, made a new UI that severely fucks with "read the conversation."
- 8note 2mo ago
  nah, now it loads maybe 3 posts at a time and the latency is really slow to pull up those 3
- pseudalopex 1mo ago
  Reddit tested login walls on the new site since months.[1] [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/32706 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/32706
titzer 2mo ago
> Finally fixed the problem by deleting my Instagram account. The real fix!
inigyou 1mo ago
Never delete your account. That account has a bunch of associated signals that scream "real user". Therefore you should sell it on an account marketplace to a spammer, if you really hate the platform.
- cindyllm 1mo ago
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matheusmoreira 1mo ago
> Finally fixed the problem by deleting my Instagram account. The best solution. Highly recommended.

greenleafone7 2mo ago

Best move you could have possibly done.

srcnkcl 2mo ago

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”

zenoprax 2mo ago

A counter example: I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday but it turns out uBlock can filter out the ads, boilerplate, sidebars, join/login buttons etc on the main site. It's actually faster and more usable than the old site now. Small win.

dayone1 2mo ago
How do you filter it out? Do you select each element individually?
- zenoprax 1mo ago
  Yes, the Element Picker in uBlock Origin. Requires Firefox because of Web Manifest stuff in Chromium.
m348e912 2mo ago
>I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday It appears to still be up for me. ??
- esseph 2mo ago
  Not sure there's been a hard date publicly set but they are sunsetting it
- kotaKat 2mo ago
  It's A/B tested across IP ranges, geolocated regions, etc. I got it super early and it sucks being locked out for the past 2-3 weeks now.
- shawn_w 2mo ago
  You now have to be logged in to reddit to use it.
- spidercat 2mo ago
  "anonymous" is the key word. old.reddit still works (though it seems to get progressively jankier), but it's now requiring a login.
  - chokma 2mo ago
    It was activated for my region yesterday and it did wonders for breaking my reddit addiction. Then I tried the normal view and ... wow, so many auto-playing video ads disguised as regular posts.
  - KennyBlanken 1mo ago
    Reading the claim that they're requiring login to old.reddit.com "for safety" made me laugh out loud. When are they going to admit that the redesign sucks and there's a reason everyone keeps loading the old reddit interface? Who has the ego that can't handle the truth, that their UI/UX design is garbage and loathed? The random phrases turned into links that are never helpful means I can't trust any link in comments now, there's that stupid AI box that never has useful or helpful info, conversations are a nightmare to try and read through. I will never understand how it is that a site which exists almost entirely for conversations, made a new UI that severely fucks with "read the conversation."
8note 2mo ago
nah, now it loads maybe 3 posts at a time and the latency is really slow to pull up those 3
pseudalopex 1mo ago
Reddit tested login walls on the new site since months.[1] [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/32706 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/32706

titzer 2mo ago

> Finally fixed the problem by deleting my Instagram account. The real fix!

inigyou 1mo ago

Never delete your account. That account has a bunch of associated signals that scream "real user". Therefore you should sell it on an account marketplace to a spammer, if you really hate the platform.

cindyllm 1mo ago
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matheusmoreira 1mo ago

> Finally fixed the problem by deleting my Instagram account. The best solution. Highly recommended.