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Comment by Overtonwindow | Hacker News Reader

When I encounter these types of windows that I can't seem to "close" I use Google's developer console to inspect the element and then...delete it. The box goes away and I can read the rest of the news article. It's a pain but it's better than clicking anything that might lead to further annoyances.

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I do something similar but using noScript (js disabled by default).

Most of the times the news are loaded without popups and sometimes with wrong CSS but still readable.

Sometimes I need to enable js only for the actual host for it to work. In the end it's worth the hassle.

To be clear, you can do this in any browser. I also am in the habit of editing EULA's before agreeing to anything.

Same. Would be nice to have a "make this recur" button so when page reloads I don't have to keep doing it.

EDIT: If it's just text I'm after, I'll also go in with elinks.

You could use something like Greasemonkey and set up rules for that domain, though it'd be nice if this was automated from the action of deleting an element.

uBlock Origin has an element-selector built in. It pops up a little editing window, and you can modify and save the element to your own block list.

The downside is that web pages often change, so this might not work for long.

Write a small TamperMonkey script to fix their BS JS. That's what I did when Comcast wouldn't let me pay my bill without creating a Comcastic!!! Account. My login worked just fine, but they really wanted to block me from paying my bill until I created a separate account with their useless email features and other things for some reason. Killing some DOM elements let me pay their ransom.

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