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Comment by majewsky | Hacker News Reader

Might be an interesting article, but that position:fixed footer with ongoing animations is just too atrocious.

Don't worry, you're not missing out. The article is a bunch of questionable assumptions made from highly dodgy metrics written by the kind of person who calls people a "Solopreneur".

DuckDuckGo, on the other hand, is very very much worth your time, if you aren't familiar with it: https://duckduckgo.com

I am! It's my default search engine.

On mobile it asks for an email in a persistent footer that takes up 1/3 of the screen. When you type a fake email (there is no way to remove it) it brings up another footer asking if you would like to have such a footer on your own website ( also unremovable). Thank God for reader mode.

I burst out laughing, thinking they were trolling. But it's a real product.

Didn't get any of that in Firefox Focus

In case you already haven't, might wanna add the "Kill Sticky" bookmarklet: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

Bookmarklet works in Chrome on iOS. Edit bookmark and paste in javascript link.

Kind of ironic to me we are talking about DDG and using Chrome all in the same breath.

Add this to your bookmark bar. Click on any such sites. It redirects to the outline.com page for the current article in the tab.

javascript:%20window.location%20=%20"http://outline.com/"%20+%20window.location

That's pretty good, apart from the stupid font they use. Is there some way to teach Chrome to replace the stupid font with a normal one?

With my limited knowledge of javascript, I don't think it can be done as any code to change font will be lost when new page is loaded. You might want to look into greasemonkey or their official chrome extension(I haven't tested it out).

Thank you!

Also suggesting you to accept their notifications upon landing on their page.

Right-click / Inspect element / Delete

genius - thanks for this

A better solution is to enter the Reading mode of your browser.

Some sites popup dialogs and even if you delete all the elements they have set some of the elements in the original page to not allow scroll. With reading mode you just bypass all that crap.

This is true, although if you do want to fix that particular issue then unticking overflow:none against body usually does the trick :) But yes, reader mode is simpler.

Reader mode tends to be a more uniform (a/k/a better) experience.

Though it's possible to do a hell of a lot of site fixing in Stylish via CSS edits.

Firefox reader view is your friend

I'm continually impressed at how well this feature works.

Several times I've come across an oddly formatted page and worried it'd lose styling required for the correct interpretation but not yet!

Try blogger with dynamic pages. They fail always.

That's what Developer Tools are for! ;)

In Chrome, you can right click and select "Inspect" and then remove the relevant content from the display. :)

Other browsers have "reading mode" which tends to work well for this type of thing.

I didn't even see it. Score one more for noscript.

I felt the same way but the content seems worth it.

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