HN Explorer

22 comments

[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 58.9 ms ] thread
zone2
its actually pretty good... sites load a lot faster.
jrnkntl
Works like advertised, a button to toggle it would be nice tho.
slig
Just open a new window in incognito.
pedrokost
There is a real push toward a more social web, and claims that it makes the web a better place. However, I am glad that someone has developed this extension. I have never liked all those auto updating twitter streams, facebook likes, etc. I have found them annoying ant distracting. "Making the web a better place" means gaining easier access to content. However those widgets only make me gain _better access to people I don't know, nor care about_ and pull me away from content.
lkozma
Adblock Plus can also block most widgets if configured, as far as I know.
meatmanek
In the same vein, couldn't this extension be implemented simply as a filter subscription for AdBlock?
pavs
Chrome adblockers don't block ads, they "hide ads", unlike FF Adblock.

So the ads are still loaded, but you don't get the visual clutter (I guess that the point of most adblockers), on Firefox, ABP will stop ads from loading in the first place.

AFAIK

nextparadigms
Actually, Adblock for Chrome can block ads too, but I think not all of them. It happend once Google let in by mistake some code from Webkit, that allowed for this to happen. And then they didn't remove it anymore.

Here's what Adblock's author says:

"New in version 2.0: Ads are actually blocked from downloading now, instead of just being removed after the fact!"

junkbit
It wasn't a mistake. A google engineer pointed it out on the chrome bug tracker saying you get this feature for free now with webkit
mda
This was the missing piece; Facebook disconnect extension is awesome and this one completes my escape from useless social cruft.
JonnieCache
Thank christ for that! Techcrunch loads in 50% of the time now.
pointillistic
I should point out the big difference between an ad that provides the proprietor some meager revenue and the intrusive FB friends widget or the embedded twitter stream linking to some culinary porn, presumably someone's breakfast.
jonknee
I have been using my /etc/hosts file to do the same thing for a while. This should make it easier when a friend wants the same.
kmfrk
And Chrome's sync feature makes sure that you won't have to go through the steps every time you format or use another computer.
tomhenderson
I'm using Shellfish for Safari which does a nice job of hiding these widgets. Unfortunately it doesn't block them completely so they're still in the background slowing down page loads even if you can't see them.

http://open-bits.com/shellfish/

ScottBurson
Shouldn't that be "All your widget are belong to us"?
zpoley
Thanks Scott. I changed it in the description.