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Banish: New Safari Extension to Block ‘Open in App’ Dickpanels

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> * dickpanel n. : a modal panel or popover a website or app presents, deliberately obscuring its own content, to frustrate the user with a marketing message; e.g. asking the user to install the website’s app, subscribe to a newsletter, or disable privacy controls and accept tracking cookies. See dickbar.

I call those panels "pies" since getting one feels like having a pie thrown in your face. It is intended to be more of a SFW term, like when talking to front end devs: could the site please not throw so many pies? I can usually block them with adblock but doing so can be complicated, since you also have to block the CSS change that grays out the main text.

The day that old.reddit.com is deprecated will be a very sad day. I'm not even a frequent Reddit user, but when I do that is the one way I remember to get the best user experience regardless of device.

If you use the excellent Apollo for iOS, the combination of the Apollo Safari extension (free) and Amplosion ($5, also auto-redirects AMP pages) auto-redirects Reddit web links to Apollo. Highly recommended if you use Reddit on iOS.

Teddit.net is a perfect read-only interface if that's enough for you

StopTheMadness already had this feature 9 months ago.

https://apps.apple.com/app/stopthemadness-mobile/id158308293...

StopTheMadness is $7.99! Do you think it's worth the price?

No, I think it's worth way more than the price.

You can buy several single-purpose extensions for $2 or $3 each and end up paying the same amount or more to get only a fraction of the features of StopTheMadness.

Does it work well?

Good idea and something I expect iOS and Android to embed in their OS.

I kind of like the pop ups though as identifies jerk sites that I should be extra wary of.

Yes please. Android alternatives anyone?

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