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Comment by greggman3 | Hacker News Reader

I've wondered if twitter and similar sites (google news?) are not running afoul of any accessibility laws. I've wanted to apply ublock origin rules but twitter does not have any aria tags and all the CSS rules are auto-generated and compressed (obfuscated?) so it's hard to make any rules that don't rely on content

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I found this to be extremely annoying as well. I tried to block the trending container but it keeps being on some subpages.

It is absolutely annoying, but I think it’s a result of Twitter using react-native-web and not (primarily) an obfuscation tactic

uBlock Origin can block network requests too. These rules should block requests to trending hashtags and recommended user accounts:

  ||twitter.com/i/api/2/guide.json$xhr,1p
  ||twitter.com/i/api/1.1/users/recommendations.json$xhr,1p

Alternatively you can use nitter.net to browse Twitter

Thank you! Didn’t know that this was possible, I’ll give it a try!

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