There's an irony of me getting distracted from what I should be doing by looking at ditraction filters...
My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
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Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Adguard. The free version works like a charm in Safari on iOS.
Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Brave on mobile has all the popular filters as an option to enable. So all built in, it’s great.
Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
#145One of the most useful is removing home page clutter on youtube:
youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype*='home']
m.youtube.com##ytm-browse > ytm-single-column-browse-results-renderer > div > div[tab-identifier*="FEwhat_to_watch"]Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
#146Tangentially: 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.
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Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
#147Earlier 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.
"Orion" is developed by the people at Kagi, free, and blocks a lot. As soon as I'm earning a salary again, I'll be supporting them financially; super valuable.
Actually uBO can be installed in Orion.
Orion supports firefox and chrome plugins and runs on iOs
Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
#148NB: Before/after screenshots are highly useful when pitching or demonstrating something such as this.
Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
#149If you use uBlock Origin, did you try to submit these filters to the uBlock Annoyances[1] or EasyList Annoyances lists before starting up this project? That would help far more people that starting up yet another Annoyances list. 1. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets
PSA: Some annoyances lists can be zealous about removing from websites any visual cue indicating the availability of an RSS feed.
I strongly suspect that those get caught up on "social" or "sharing" icons, often indicated by a "social" class, or "share-daddy" specifically (I block that last a heck of a lot myself).
Re: My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
#150For read only I really like these privacy friendly alternatives:
Twitter, completely skinned down to just the content and no login nags:
Nitter - https://nitter.net - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Youtube, also very skinned down and you can also collapse recommendations by default etc.:
Piped - https://piped.video - https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
Invidious - https://invidious.io - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/
Stackoverflow, also completely skinned down to just the content and nothing more:
AnonymousOverflow - https://code.whatever.social - https://github.com/httpjamesm/AnonymousOverflow
For all of these I use LibRedirect to redirect the original pages to the open source/privacy friendly frontends: