Thanks. I use it a lot to hide sticky menus, the open in app button of sites hosted on Medium and more or less everything that wastes space on the screen of my phone.
For Firefox, there's Nuke Anything Enhanced https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nuke-anything... The removals are temporary though. There used to be an addon called "Remove it permanently", but I guess it didn't make the transition to a web extension.
It's available as an add-on. You can find it by searching in the add-ons manager (cmd+shift+A in osx). This brings you to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin where you can click to install. I recommend searching for it on your own through the built-in mechanism rather than trusting a link provided by a stranger.
Firefox Android with uBlock: open the 3 dots menu, uBlock Origin, touch the picker, go to the tab with the element to hide, touch it, touch preview, confirm. Sometimes it's necessary to select parent elements in the DOM list it displays: it's faster than trying to pick the right element with the finger.
Would you look at that. I've actually been using uBlock since forever, but had no idea it could do that. Oh well, I guess sometimes you just can't see the forest for trees.
I'd love for the extension to collect what elements are being killed by other users and kill them automatically for me. Specially on mobile.
I don't think that feature exists anywhere else and seems a trivial implementation of collaborative filtering to decide what to delete preemptively for each user.
That would be an awesome feature, but would mean sticking your hand into the whole data-collection/user privacy/GDPR rats nest. Not a ship I'm too keen to captain.
I assumed people would get the joke but most must not have clicked through to the explanation of xkill which is all about killing the desktop clock. I'll make sure to surround a dangerous comment like that in <joke> tags next time.
Great idea. I found Saka Key [0], an extension (Chrome and Firefox) for general re/binding of keyboard shortcuts, similar to the various vim extensions, but more general, though it has two vim variants amongst the binding templates. Seems well done. I've felt dissappointed by the other vim extensions. Maybe I'll be able to bind the ublock origin zapper.
To anybody wondering, the link in parent is for a filtering list that blocks annoying EU cookie notifications on websites. I had been wishing for this so thanks for sharing.
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For a general slide-in/pop-up blocker, try Kill It https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-it/
isn't that just adding it as a ABP/ublock filter?
Go to chrome://extensions/shortcuts and set a shortcut on "Enter element zapper mode".
I set it to ctrl+shift+q because I kept accidentally closing my browser and I needed something to override it ...
I don't think that feature exists anywhere else and seems a trivial implementation of collaborative filtering to decide what to delete preemptively for each user.
The zapper will also try to detect and remove CSS rules which prevent the whole page from being scrolled.
[0] https://key.saka.io/
How this should really work is by maintaining two DOMs, one which the application sees, and one which the user sees.
Half baked is an understatement, but I guess it works sorta-ok for a half-day project. Pull requests are very welcome though!