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My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

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Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

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Post by smegsicle »

dredmorbius wrote: post #124
perihelions wrote: post #41

Tangentially: after you've blocked a very large number of ads and sidebars, one useful enhancement is to expand whatever text elements remain, to regain use of all that now-empty whitespace. Something like so: :xpath(//main/div):style(min-width: 80% !important) (I've been looking at going a step further for some sites, by annotating a "column-count:" [0] rule and making the screen look like a newspaper. (Narrow colum…

I'm quite the fan of various site restylings, using both uBO and Stylus. But often just switching to Reader Mode is the faster and preferable option. (This isn't always an option, but frequently is.)

> Stylish

is that the one with a bunch of spyware on it? or is that the one that replaced the one with a bunch of spyware on it

Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

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Post by mkskm »

ladzoppelin wrote: post #100
gzer0 wrote: post #82

If you go to Options > Filter Lists > Annoyances and check mark the following items: "AdGuard – Annoyances" "EasyList – Annoyances" "uBlock filters – Annoyances" You will get rid of 99.9% of website annoyances without affecting any main functionality of websites. I've been doing this on every fresh install of Chrome for years. Works wonders.

Is AdGuard better than easylist?

They're complementary.

Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

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Post by Diskutant »

smegsicle wrote: post #171
dredmorbius wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm quite the fan of various site restylings, using both uBO and Stylus. But often just switching to Reader Mode is the faster and preferable option. (This isn't always an option, but frequently is.)

> Stylish is that the one with a bunch of spyware on it? or is that the one that replaced the one with a bunch of spyware on it

It's the bad one.

Stylus is the good one https://add0n.com/stylus.html

Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

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Post by WithinReason »

notRobot wrote: post #137
perihelions wrote: post #41

Tangentially: after you've blocked a very large number of ads and sidebars, one useful enhancement is to expand whatever text elements remain, to regain use of all that now-empty whitespace. Something like so: :xpath(//main/div):style(min-width: 80% !important) (I've been looking at going a step further for some sites, by annotating a "column-count:" [0] rule and making the screen look like a newspaper. (Narrow colum…

It would be cool if you could figure out a way to have this work on top of FF's reader view.

It's possible to style the page Reader View uses by creating new files in FF's folders somewhere...

Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

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Post by salad-tycoon »

chronicsonic wrote: post #144
eatsyourtacos wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are people using on their phones these days for ad blocking? (iphone specifically). I absolutely cannot stand any mobile website ever- it's insanity.

Brave on mobile has all the popular filters as an option to enable. So all built in, it’s great.

I have 1 blocker premium, adgard, proton vpn blocklist, NextDNS. Out of all of them Brave is best and the only one that consistently blocks YouTube ads (and allowed for background playing).

Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

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Post by salad-tycoon »

cebert wrote: post #142
eatsyourtacos wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are people using on their phones these days for ad blocking? (iphone specifically). I absolutely cannot stand any mobile website ever- it's insanity.

I’ve been really happy with NextDNS for blocking trackers and ads via DNS for my iPhone. You can create a provisioning profile for iOS and also have the ability to turn the blocking on and off on demand.a Since iOS doesn’t make it easy to run a flush DNS command, I’ve discovered turning airplane mode on and off will clear your cache.

Which blocklists have you chosen and do they break any sites? Any other tweaks you’ve made? I find it doesn’t block in app or YouTube.

Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

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Post by perihelions »

WithinReason wrote: post #175
notRobot wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be cool if you could figure out a way to have this work on top of FF's reader view.

It's possible to style the page Reader View uses by creating new files in FF's folders somewhere...

That works too!

    @-moz-document url-prefix(about:reader) {
      .container {
        column-count: 4;
        min-width: 85vw !important;
        margin: 0 50px 0 50px;
      }
    }
https://i.ibb.co/7XT4zfs/example-2.webp

It's chrome/userContent.css in the Firefox profile subdirectory, enabled by the about:config flag toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets.

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