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Wow...I'm generally not bothered by ads, but when they cover up the text of the article and don't give you a way to click out of it, they give me no choice but

Wow...I'm generally not bothered by ads, but when they cover up the text of the article and don't give you a way to click out of it, they give me no choice but to not read it.

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shakeel_mohamed 13y ago
If you wait long enough it goes away, but yeah I agree I didn't bother reading due to the ad.
bithive123 13y ago
I didn't even get an ad, the page just covered itself in black stripes with a little white lozenge in the middle.
- buro9 13y ago
  Chrome + F12, inspect element, delete. I do this too often. We screwed the web.
  - jamesgeck0 13y ago
    I'm a pretty big fan of Evernote Clearly; easier than poking around in the inspector, especially if the element in question is flash.
  - cynwoody 13y ago
    I have found the Click to Remove Element extension useful in Chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/click-to-remove-element/jcgpghgjhhahcefnfpbncdmhhddedhnk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/click-to-remove-el...
  - derefr 13y ago
    I wonder if--in the same way most browsers use a heuristic to block pop-ups if they weren't triggered by a user action--we could come up with an effective heuristic to do the same for pop-overs. I'd think the simplest thing would be blocking "position: fixed; width: 100%; height: 100%;" curtain elements, along with anything that stacks "above" them. They only have two valid uses that I can think of: displaying lightbox-like image galleries, and embedding modal confirmation dialogs in single-page apps. It'd probably be easier to figure out a heuristic to whitelist these two uses, and deny everything else.
- angersock 13y ago
  Wow. It's Colorbox, and they fucked it up.
kyrra 13y ago
Hitting Escape made it go away for me.
pwg 13y ago
AdBlock + NoScript I never even knew there was supposed to be an annoying ad covering things up.
jdmichal 13y ago
Install Readability [0] as a bookmarklet. As long as the article is on the page (aka not Forbes), it will process it correctly. [0] https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets

Wow...I'm generally not bothered by ads, but when they cover up the text of the article and don't give you a way to click out of it, they give me no choice but to not read it.

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shakeel_mohamed 13y ago

If you wait long enough it goes away, but yeah I agree I didn't bother reading due to the ad.

bithive123 13y ago

I didn't even get an ad, the page just covered itself in black stripes with a little white lozenge in the middle.

buro9 13y ago
Chrome + F12, inspect element, delete. I do this too often. We screwed the web.
- jamesgeck0 13y ago
  I'm a pretty big fan of Evernote Clearly; easier than poking around in the inspector, especially if the element in question is flash.
- cynwoody 13y ago
  I have found the Click to Remove Element extension useful in Chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/click-to-remove-element/jcgpghgjhhahcefnfpbncdmhhddedhnk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/click-to-remove-el...
- derefr 13y ago
  I wonder if--in the same way most browsers use a heuristic to block pop-ups if they weren't triggered by a user action--we could come up with an effective heuristic to do the same for pop-overs. I'd think the simplest thing would be blocking "position: fixed; width: 100%; height: 100%;" curtain elements, along with anything that stacks "above" them. They only have two valid uses that I can think of: displaying lightbox-like image galleries, and embedding modal confirmation dialogs in single-page apps. It'd probably be easier to figure out a heuristic to whitelist these two uses, and deny everything else.
angersock 13y ago
Wow. It's Colorbox, and they fucked it up.

kyrra 13y ago

Hitting Escape made it go away for me.

pwg 13y ago

AdBlock + NoScript I never even knew there was supposed to be an annoying ad covering things up.

jdmichal 13y ago

Install Readability [0] as a bookmarklet. As long as the article is on the page (aka not Forbes), it will process it correctly. [0] https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets