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Arc is the best browser UI thus far. Everything else is still stuck in the late 2000s essentially
Arc's pretty great, but I wish it had nested vertical tabs a la Orion.
Arc has native support for cosmetic improvements. Those are called Boosts and you can interactively create your owns in just a few clicks, and also add custom CSS/JS if needed. I use this extensively to declutter/dedistract most websites I visit: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Medium, Gmail, YouTube, and so on. It's a real life-changer! See the Boosts shared by other users here: https://arc.net/boosts
Arc is the best browser UI thus far. Everything else is still stuck in the late 2000s essentially
We need more browsers that focus on user features, not website features. The web is basically beyond feature-complete already, but the tools we use to interact with it are so basic. Like riding a horse on an interstate!
Personally I have to hide Stack Exchange’s trending questions on my work machine. Those things are catnip to me. askubuntu.com###hot-network-questions serverfault.com###hot-network-questions stackexchange.com###hot-network-questions stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions superuser.com###hot-network-questions Also many sites disregard prefers-reduced-motion, so I’m often hiding visual distractions like endless caro…
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stackoverflow.com##.js-step02.js-step.step.has-width.ta-center
stackoverflow.com##.quack-popover--arrow
stackoverflow.com###overlay-header
stackoverflow.com###feed-link
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And this does not even include the goddamn cookie banners, for which ublock has a separate rule set fortunately. Unfortunately, it's the rule set that leads to the most problems because some sites don't work correctly or don't load at all when the cookie banner has not been interacted with. I hate the modern internet without ublock.
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There really are two different version of the internet, and which one you use depends on how how well your ad blockers are configured. I was using my mom's laptop over the holidays, and it took me a minute to realize why every site I visited looked so _different_. What I quickly realised is almost every site I visited was wallpapered in ads: banners between every paragraph, sidebars full of ads, and background images…
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.
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…
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.
Thanks!
Personally I have to hide Stack Exchange’s trending questions on my work machine. Those things are catnip to me. askubuntu.com###hot-network-questions serverfault.com###hot-network-questions stackexchange.com###hot-network-questions stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions superuser.com###hot-network-questions Also many sites disregard prefers-reduced-motion, so I’m often hiding visual distractions like endless caro…
This one gets rid of the Login With Google popups that have infested most corners of the internet: accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe It doesn't break the login with google button, so you can still login with your google account, if you must.
Will try it and might add it too, I find those annoying. Thanks!
Which of course implies that you have to be logged into Google for it to work, doesn't apply to incognito windows, etc.
Personally I have to hide Stack Exchange’s trending questions on my work machine. Those things are catnip to me. askubuntu.com###hot-network-questions serverfault.com###hot-network-questions stackexchange.com###hot-network-questions stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions superuser.com###hot-network-questions Also many sites disregard prefers-reduced-motion, so I’m often hiding visual distractions like endless caro…
Same here! Although my rules look a bit different because I simply use the element picker: stackoverflow.com##.c-pointer.js-quack-btn stackoverflow.com##.js-step01.js-step.step.ws-nowrap stackoverflow.com##.js-step02.js-step.step.has-width.ta-center stackoverflow.com##.quack-popover--arrow stackoverflow.com###overlay-header stackoverflow.com###feed-link stackoverflow.com##.mb16.s-anchors__default.s-anchors.s-sidebarw…
Thanks for sharing.
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There really are two different version of the internet, and which one you use depends on how how well your ad blockers are configured. I was using my mom's laptop over the holidays, and it took me a minute to realize why every site I visited looked so _different_. What I quickly realised is almost every site I visited was wallpapered in ads: banners between every paragraph, sidebars full of ads, and background images…
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.