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uBlock?

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock/

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

Safari: https://www.ublock.org/newdl/safari/0.9.5.2

Alternatively: Firefox has a built-in "Reader View" button in the address bar that extracts just the text and formats it for easy reading.

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uBlock didn't fix it for me. Also, because the second overlay was huge, I couldn't close it down so I closed the tab instead...

Maybe it's time to NoScript?

I get the feeling having NoScript can be more annoying that not having it so I have been procrastinating installing it...

Speaking as someone who has NoScript installed... you are sadly correct.

I use "medium mode" in uBlock[1], which causes only 3rd-party scripts/frames to be blocked, not 1st-party ones. I could read the article fine, I had no idea there were issues with overlays with it, and it otherwise rendered fine.

Not blocking 1st-party scripts remove a lot of the tediousness of blocking scripts by default.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

There's also ublock matrix which is noscript but easier to work with.

Thanks for the suggestion, it looks very interesting. And, obviously, thanks for all the work on uBlock Origin, interneting got much less annoying after installing it in every machine I get my hands on. Thanks!

Why? Just don't read articles from such annoying sites.

Right click, Inspect Element, Delete. most of those seem to be about 20 divs deep, but usually have a parent div labelled "modal_something", so move up the chain and delete that parent.

It is annoying to have to do that, so I only do it if I truly care about reading the page. But once it is in your browser, it is in your control. Use that control.

I do it a lot for Stylebot but only a really small minority of websites deserve that waste of time. It's a good tip, one I tell everyone I know about, most sites I read on a daily basis are highly tweaked by the Inspect Element tool plus Stylebot.

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