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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by dvfjsdhgfv on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:36AM (#17704516)
In my experience, most adblock blockers take a lazy approach - it's just a piece of JS loaded together with the main document. So it's ridiculously easy to protect against: just switch off JS with a click and you can read the page in question. Of course it works for documents only - if you need to use an app, things are much trickier and you need to dig up a bit to understand which script you have to block.
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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by andai on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:17AM (#17704680)
Due to bandwidth constraints I surfed with images and JS disabled (safari developer options) and oh my god what an improvement it was. No trackers. No ads. No auto-playing video. No newsletter pop ups. No cookie notices. This was GDPR but I imagine that would be gone on most sites too. I'll probably switch back soon. I long for the speed, the elegance...
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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by swiley on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:11AM (#17704653)
Usually you don’t even need that, they just cover the page with a div that you can delete in inspector.
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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by xioxox on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:42AM (#17705293)
There's also this bookmarklet which deletes fixed elements (unfortunately I don't know the original author):

  javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20<%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()
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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by pgl on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:50AM (#17705600)
Author is Alisdair McDiarmid:

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

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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by andai on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:18AM (#17704683)
This is a very useful skill. I run into a surprising number of pages where invisible elements prevent you from continuing (unintentionally, eg payment forms).

Also that crap on the bottom of every Medium article.

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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by boomlinde on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:41AM (#17704783)
... and the top... and the sides...
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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by nmca on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @05:26AM (#17704970)
"kill sticky" is amazing for this. One click gets most annoying stuff.

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

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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by dvfjsdhgfv on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:54AM (#17704845)
That's at least two clicks. Disabling JS with a plugin like disable-HTML is one click.
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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by namibj on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:25AM (#17704711)
Or zap with uBlock origin
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