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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by chrissnell on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:04PM (#18416953)
I actually wrote some ad blocking rules to remove all of these Reddit annoyances. I've been meaning to submit them to one of the mobile-focused Adblock lists. Here are the elements that you need to hide. I like 1 BlockerX for this:

    .snackbar
    .xpromopopup
    .topbutton
    .xpromopill
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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by tyingq on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:12PM (#18417527)
I like "promo pill". That's exactly what it feels like.
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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by davemp on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:31PM (#18417716)
I leave these on to remind me how far reddit has fallen and to generally avoid the site.
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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by chiefgeek on Friday November 09, 2018 @07:45PM (#18419228)
God, Reddit was the bomb 8-9 years ago!
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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by ajacksified on Friday November 09, 2018 @07:27PM (#18419157)
You can also turn off the ads by opening the menu and clicking "Ask to open in App?".
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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by wetpaws on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:01PM (#18417421)
You are doing God's work
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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by nhauz on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:45PM (#18417849)
Wish I could add those to mobile Safari :P
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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by oe on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:53PM (#18417925)
Install an ad blocker that supports hiding page elements. I added these to 1Blocker on iOS.
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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by nhauz on Friday November 09, 2018 @04:06PM (#18418027)
That one costs money. Is there a free blocker? I use Firefox Focus, but it does not let me add custom elements.
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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by starchturrets on Saturday November 10, 2018 @03:01AM (#18420413)
Adguard is free and supports custom elements. As a bonus, it’s open source. These are the rules I use:

www.reddit.com##.xpromopill

www.reddit.com##.active.xpromopopup

www.reddit.com##.amp.snackbar

www.reddit.com##.navframe > .xpromominimal.dualpartinterstitial

www.reddit.com##.xpromoadfeed

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by glitchdout on Saturday November 10, 2018 @09:02PM (#18424616)
I did not know this was possible! Thank you so much!
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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by nhauz on Saturday November 10, 2018 @05:15AM (#18420714)
THANK YOU!
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