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Comment by lysozyme | Hacker News Reader

I’ve tried a lot of ad blockers over the years. Browsing mainstream news on the internet, in particular, highlights the absolute cesspool of pop ups and auto-playing videos that characterize the contemporary web.

None, least of all Stop the Madness, have worked as well and on as many devices as this simple bookmarklet, whose author I don’t know but who has saved me countless aggravations

    javascript:(function%20()%20%7B%20var%20i,%20elements%20=%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*');%20%20for%20(i%20=%200;%20i%20%3C%20elements.length;%20i++)%20%7B%20if%20(%5B%22sticky%22,%20%22fixed%22%5D.includes(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position))%20%7B%20elements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D);%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D)();

Edit: credit to the original author [1] and thank you!

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

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javascript:( function(){ let i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *'); for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if(getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'sticky') { elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]); } } document.body.style.overflow = "auto"; document.body.style.position = "static"; })()

here's the script for people that want to see the stuff without all the url encodings. oh and I added a thing that stops them from stopping your scrolling(think the kind that pop up an ad or something and stop you from scrolling)

one of the most useful bookmarklettes that I use many times a day. I got it from the original author too I think

This is great. I just discovered that in firefox you can have bookmarks without a title. So if you put this as the only item and without a title into the "Bookmarks Toolbar" folder, you have a simple button that you can add to your toolbar. This is hacky, but good enough for me.

Love it!

StopTheMadness is not an ad blocker.

It can run user scripts though.

I’ve had the Kill Sticky bookmarklet handy as the first item in the bookmarks bar of every browser I’ve used for years and it is phenomenal in how simple and useful it is. Works everywhere from my iPad to my desktop and everywhere in between. Really a sanity saver and I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Can you give an example of sites encountered in regular browsing this helps with?

For example, the top bar on New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/riding-lon... .

Or a more obviously one, the HUGE top bar on Material Design site: https://material.io .

For the uneducated, what does this actually do?

It searches the page for and removes all elements that have a "sticky" or "fixed" position. Elements positioned in those ways stay in the frame all the time, and are usually used for things like: videos that follow you, persistent chat buttons/windows, headers that stay in view even as you scroll, and page overlays.

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