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What do you call that giant banner that drops down on Medium (and other sites) every time I accidentally scroll up a pixel? I hate that thing.
I call it the nav teabag.
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How would you go about detecting when a user is about to leave your site? Other than responding to a click on an external link? The two ways I typically leave a site are a) typing a URL into the address bar and b) closing a tab.
Scrolling up seems pretty popular. Why wouldn't you want a half-page menu telling you what to read next when you scroll up to check something?
Why would you? You're not scrolling up to get recommendations, you're scrolling up to re-read content.
Or at least, that's me. If I want to go back to navigation, I hit the Home key (the vast majority of systems do have one or two of them...). If I'm scrolling up, it's to read.
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#214If you don't want to see my pop up asking you to subscribe to my newsletter after you've scrolled through half the article I wrote (that you have shown to be interested) then you are free to leave and not come back. Deal.
And I often do, thanks for the invitation.
On the other hand, if there's a non-popup at the end of post that asks for my email address, and if I liked the content and think more would be useful ... I'll provide it.
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#216Yes, I want to subscribe to your newsletter! Automatically with a browser plugin, with an address that will even accept your mails. Unfortunately no human will read them in the end, but I'm sure your metrics will be great. I might even accept a cookie so you know I'm already subscribed to your great newsletter. Now if everybody were to do that...
Would admin@spamcop.net be more effective?
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Do you know of a way, say in the JavaScript console (I'm guessing?), to reset scroll behaviors? I'm not clever enough with JS or CSS to have figured it out. Deleting the modal using the inspector is what I do but I can't get around the scrolling...
This will solve the problem for you on most sites: document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].style.overflow = "scroll"; The css property you're looking for is "overflow," usually on the body or html tag.
I tried that on a page. The scroll bars reappeared, but were not draggable. Trying to drag them activated some mechanism which scrolled part of the screen.
It may also be necessary to remove event listeners.
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#218Since we're talking about ads and such, has anyone tried AdNauseam [0]? It's an extension based on uBlock that clicks ALL ad links in the background. I find the idea fascinating because flooding my ad profile with random noise sounds appealing.
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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…
> - Javascript exec turned on/off by domain
Opera used to have this ;'-( before they fired the entire Presto (browser engine) team and switched to webkit/chrome.
I've been giving the "modern" Opera a test run for the past week and while it's still way snappier by miles (compared to firefox and chrome, on a slow laptop) but it still misses so many features I used to depend on in the 2000s.
Yes you can get add-ons for almost all of the functionality, but you'll grind firefox or chrome to a halt before you even get close the the functionality of the old Opera that just came with all that stuff, batteries included.
(before accusations of bloat: installer/executable size was tiny, I seem to remember below 1MB for medium-old versions)
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#220IMO it doesn't worth the time to discuss appropriate and inappropriate uses of JavaScript. It's way simpler to disable it entirely. I use two browsers: Firefox with "YesScript" extension which keeps the black list of sites where JS is disabled: see a popup? laggy scrolling? sticky headers? Bam! hit the button and you won't see it again. For work, where web applications like Google suite matter, I use Chrome. Some tim…
> position:fixed (auto-replace to position:static) I've gotten pretty good results from a bookmarklet that converts `position: fixed` elements to `display: none`.
Here's mine:
javascript:for (let e of document.querySelectorAll('*')) if (/fixed|sticky/.test(getComputedStyle(e).position)) e.style.position = 'static';