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This is less-bad than the real thing.

[EDIT] I think I figured out the main difference: this lets me imagine that more than 10% of the "content" isn't also SEO garbage, and has actual value.

[EDIT AGAIN] What it really needs is a giant sticky header that hides when scrolling down but pops up the second you scroll up at all, obscuring all the stuff you were scrolling up to see.

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Those giant dynamic headers are the worst. If you try to save the page to PDF, those headers will block the content at the top of the page.

I've taken to using the element zapper on Ublock Origin to remove them. Sometimes I worry that it'll break the navigation, but then again I rarely come back to sites like those.

> [EDIT] I think I figured out the main difference: this lets me imagine that more than 10% of the "content" isn't also SEO garbage, and has actual value.

Yup. I think the author forgot to color the main article text, and to label it "also an ad".

How about a "Find everything you needed?" popover that appears near the top when you move your cursor up to the tab bar to close the tab?

In real life, the news article is actually a PR release written entirely by a PR company and fed to some low-level staffer (because actual journalism is expensive and nobody can even tell that this is happening)

If you're interested in this topic, I suggest the short book Ghosting The News.

You can make a bookmark called "Kill Sticky" or something and put this in it [1]:

  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)()

It will delete any fixed headers and footers on your current page.

[1]:https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

Those headers are a biscuit(<-euphemism).

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