StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
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StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
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Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
#2I’ve tried a lot of ad blockers over the years. Browsing mainstream news on the internet, in particular, highlights the absolute cesspool of pop ups and auto-playing videos that characterize the contemporary web.
None, least of all Stop the Madness, have worked as well and on as many devices as this simple bookmarklet, whose author I don’t know but who has saved me countless aggravations
javascript:(function%20()%20%7B%20var%20i,%20elements%20=%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*');%20%20for%20(i%20=%200;%20i%20%3C%20elements.length;%20i++)%20%7B%20if%20(%5B%22sticky%22,%20%22fixed%22%5D.includes(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position))%20%7B%20elements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D);%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D)();
Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
#3> The developer of StopTheMadness is Jeff Johnson, famous for solving
the Mac OCSP appocalypse. Jeff's other software includes Link
Unshortener, a Mac app that expands shortened web links, Tweaks for
Twitter, a web browser extension for Mac and iOS that makes Twitter
better, and StopTheScript, a Safari extension for iOS that stops all
JavaScript on your selected websites.
If HCI/UX was a real thing, none of these remedial apps would be necessary, because users would have choice about how to operate the things they bought and paid for. Yet, all of these are solutions to fixing someone else's idea that they've imposed upon users. "Take back X" is slogan we're going to hear more and more of until we finally admit that consumer computing has become a battle between developers and users.
Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
#4well, i kinda gave up.
the problem is not exclusive to browsers at this point. it's the entire OS stack we need to take back. that said, i appreciate the energy put towards making things change. features like protecting copy and paste, and stopping autoplay brought a smile to my face.
the fight is right.
Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
#5> The developer of StopTheMadness is Jeff Johnson, famous for solving the Mac OCSP appocalypse. Jeff's other software includes Link Unshortener, a Mac app that expands shortened web links, Tweaks for Twitter, a web browser extension for Mac and iOS that makes Twitter better, and StopTheScript, a Safari extension for iOS that stops all JavaScript on your selected websites. If HCI/UX was a real thing, none of these rem…
It might be a slogan that gets advertised more, but users don't give a crap about choice when all they want is read misinformation on social media, post personal data in public and watch cat videos on ticktock.
The amount of 'taking things back' might only apply to those who 'had' things to begin with, and only a subset of those that still want to 'have' things. I fear most people neither know nor want to know about any of this.
Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
#6Is there a list of settings to change for eg. firefox (in about:config) on linux to achieve the same thing, maybe even without an extension?
Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
#7well, i kinda gave up. the problem is not exclusive to browsers at this point. it's the entire OS stack we need to take back. that said, i appreciate the energy put towards making things change. features like protecting copy and paste, and stopping autoplay brought a smile to my face. the fight is right.
We're at the point where both MacOS and Windows have an advertising ID. It can be anonymized, but I can't just turn it off.
Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
#8I’ve tried a lot of ad blockers over the years. Browsing mainstream news on the internet, in particular, highlights the absolute cesspool of pop ups and auto-playing videos that characterize the contemporary web. None, least of all Stop the Madness, have worked as well and on as many devices as this simple bookmarklet, whose author I don’t know but who has saved me countless aggravations javascript:(function%20()%20%…
javascript:( function(){ let i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *'); for (i = 0; i here's the script for people that want to see the stuff without all the url encodings. oh and I added a thing that stops them from stopping your scrolling(think the kind that pop up an ad or something and stop you from scrolling)
one of the most useful bookmarklettes that I use many times a day. I got it from the original author too I think
Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
#9well, i kinda gave up. the problem is not exclusive to browsers at this point. it's the entire OS stack we need to take back. that said, i appreciate the energy put towards making things change. features like protecting copy and paste, and stopping autoplay brought a smile to my face. the fight is right.
>features like protecting copy and paste, and stopping autoplay brought a smile to my face.
This is what we get now when we had developers band together with those who want to protect their "content" that is not valuable enough to be published directly, nor is it original; yet they want to make sure that no one takes their amateur work and makes money from it before they do. This is what we get for wanting to create artist protections without needing formal frameworks or policies: the creatives find a way to do something, and then the replicators find ways to use it en masse.
Protecting content was not an issue after SEO, or before online payments for reading articles online, nor was it ever really necessary. All they do is make sure that those who are motivated to copy their content find ways to do so, with a hassle.
Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
#10> The developer of StopTheMadness is Jeff Johnson, famous for solving the Mac OCSP appocalypse. Jeff's other software includes Link Unshortener, a Mac app that expands shortened web links, Tweaks for Twitter, a web browser extension for Mac and iOS that makes Twitter better, and StopTheScript, a Safari extension for iOS that stops all JavaScript on your selected websites. If HCI/UX was a real thing, none of these rem…
It might be a slogan that gets advertised more, but users don't give a crap about choice when all they want is read misinformation on social media, post personal data in public and watch cat videos on ticktock. The amount of 'taking things back' might only apply to those who 'had' things to begin with, and only a subset of those that still want to 'have' things. I fear most people neither know nor want to know about…
and that's exactly why we need to "take things back". for them. for those that don't know how it was and how it should be.