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Can your add-on remove all mentions of the Kardashians, Taylor Swift, Kanye, and Bruce/Caitlin Jenner?
Makes me thing of the cloud to butt plug-in (teehee) that changed every instance of the word "cloud" on a page to "butt." "..Host your data in our high availability butt..."
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Consensual, transparent censorship. Interesting.
Really not that different than kill files, something comment threads still desperately need. I realize I'm well off the curve here, but I'd still love a browser killfile plug in with: - fine-grained cookie management by name/secure status/path - Make every cookie a session cookie in a given domain - "Cookie pipes": I'd like the ability to execute scripts on cookie value changes, optionally returning a new value - Jav…
That one you can get with uMatrix, which gives you a table of Domain x {cookie, css, image, plugin, script, XHR, frame, other}. You can use this table to selectively decide what gets loaded, and what gets blocked. The default rules are, everything "first-party" (from the domain you're visiting) is allowed, but only images and CSS are allowed from any other sources. Beyond per-primary-domain overrides, you can also whitelist all or some of the content permanently in settings.
I've been using it for the past year or so, and while occasionally annoying, it makes the Web a saner place to visit, and it also makes it very obvious just how much useless crap people make you download to display their site.
EDIT: also, favouriting your comment for future reference. Maybe one day I get pissed enough and write the plugin you describe.
This battle will never be won by those who oppose the pop-ups. The reason? They work. If you put one on your site the metrics show a definite upturn in conversion, be it sales or sign-ups or whatever you're pushing. Then you take it down for awhile maybe, then you put it back up with something different and you get the upturn again. I personally despise them with every bone in my body, but I don't see them ever going…
Some time ago I've noticed that a few of my friends really enjoy going through newsletter emails and finding out about items that are on sale etc. They wouldn't necessarily look for a newsletter signup form on a website, but when a popup appears something clicks in their brains ("OMG, I really need this!") and they sign up.
I don't like these popups but well, most of the time I'm just not their target.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that there were times when I actually got converted by a popup.
When you think of that, if it offers something that's useful to you, clicking on it feels so natural and you don't analyze it too much.
I use Safari and I almost always click/tap the reader view icon as soon as the page loads. This: 1) Shows the text even if a modal has already tried to obscure it. 2) Ensures a legible font and contrast. 3) Undoes stupid scroll jacking. Yay, the text scrolls smoothly again. 4) Fixes the scroll bar so that it provides an accurate indication of how far through the page I've read, since the non-text crap I don't care ab…
Works well if you're using the web to do... reading.
This battle will never be won by those who oppose the pop-ups. The reason? They work. If you put one on your site the metrics show a definite upturn in conversion, be it sales or sign-ups or whatever you're pushing. Then you take it down for awhile maybe, then you put it back up with something different and you get the upturn again. I personally despise them with every bone in my body, but I don't see them ever going…
I hope that soon enough a popup blocker will become available that solves the irritation of popups too.
It seems to me that all these sites use the same basic code. It was some developer--one of us-- that came up with this, which has since been replicated by evil managers and complicit web developers around the globe. What we need to do, even if for purely symbolic purposes, is find the developer who coded the original modal popup and kill him (or her).
Good thing we replaced those annoying Flash banners with javascript Old guys like me saw this coming from miles away, it's just history repeating itself. To give you all a heads-up: in the future browsers will ask you "This site wants to open a new javascript dialog. Show/block"
Of course, not that simple. In the future, every other website will ship their own rendering engine (from some big CDN, of course) that prohibits you from messing with their precious spam. Heck, I honestly do expect some startups doing just this kind of "innovation" as soon as WebAssembly gets slightly more polished and cross-browser, so probably just another year or two from now. (That shit will be fought with AI/ML…
I made a add-on for myself to shun sites that behave in ways I don't like. It removes links to their sites from every page. It effectively removes them from the internet. I think that's a way scarier scenario for a website owner than just getting their ads blocked. If the list were community driven and widely used, I think site owners would start changing their behavior. I know most people just want the content and d…
My need is to remove annoyances like the Kardashians, but I had a thought. Eons ago, I decided to "protect" the Wikipedia page on the clitoris. There was a tasteful picture of an exposed woman, including scientific naming of all parts of the female genitalia. That page's picture was under constant assault from religious zealots who deleted the picture. I constantly returned it. Their reasoning was that having such a picture would make the page haram, not-halal, or a sin for people in developing countries. I countered that their issues with an encyclopedia were exactly that, their issues and it was their responsibility to block offending images. We should not censor the internet to the most easily offended.
Why does all that story matter? Well it got me thinking you could tweak (and maybe monetize?) your add-on to remove haram, non-halal, or sinful content on the user side. The type of people that don't want to see clitoris and porn links are exactly the type that don't want to accidentally see certain content. They may even want to pay for this~~
My 2 cents.