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Comment by INTPenis | Hacker News Reader

I love reading his trip report, it really pulls you in.

But what irks me is the website. I opened it on my pixel c and started reading, after about one paragraph the whole screen went dark.

I didn't understand why, checked my screen light level from the shortcut menu but moved on thinking the light sensor was wack and wanting to keep reading.

Several paragraphs after the first image I see the damn pop up.

This frenzy of gathering email addresses under the guise of newsletters irks me to no end.

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I have this handy bookmark that will remove all top-level unmovable HTML on a page. One click will generally remove all popups and banners that obstruct viewing:

   javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()

(I hope that doesn't get mangled by HN formatting)

For a tiny piece of javascript, it works amazingly well on so many websites. Give it a try!

Here's my modified version of Kill Sticky:

  javascript:(function()%7B(function()%7Bdocument.body.style.overflow%20%3D%20'auto'%3B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()%7D)()

The nice part is that some websites do the stupid scroll block thing, where you can't scroll even after removing the elements. This script undoes that.

I'll give yours a try too.

Awesome, thanks!

Would you like to share your version with https://twitter.com/alisdair? Maybe he'll update his, as this is very useful.

You'll love Firefox' reader button right next to the URL bar.

Try it!

No more "click to continue reading", no pop-ups, no scroll locks, and nice formatting.

Works very well with javascript disabled. If you leave it disabled by default, most of today's internet becomes significantly better.

Yup that was what I saw on my browser, the site was actually very clean and well behaved without JS. But my Pixel C doesn't have noscript.

Firefox on Android supports NoScript actually!

https://noscript.net/nsa/

Installed!

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