Hide all numbers that relate to dark patterns

Re:Hide all numbers that relate to dark patterns by version_five on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:48PM (#34101003)

I'm on LinkedIn a lot (don't ask why) and last time I checked they had an ultra annoying animation that jiggles or bounces the "reaction icons" like a thumbs up etc, so that when you're trying to read, your eye is distracted to that part of the page. It's "punch the monkey" level hostile to users, but what you'd expect from that cesspool.

Anyway, to stop having to see it, I used ublock origin to block all the related elements, and, maybe accidentally, also ended up blocking like counts. So it's as you say, I actually would have to look at something without caring what others think. I don't see how you could build a universal blocker. But ublocking whatever elements are displaying the counts on sites you frequent would do it

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Re:Hide all numbers that relate to dark patterns by vanillaicesquad on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:09PM (#34101152)

The problem with ublock is that when you try to block an image: For example, I don't want to see recommended videos at side of youtube. I click the elements that make the text (Like video title, views) and it works! But when i click the thumbail of the recommended videos uBlock automatically blocks the SPECIFIC image (image url) and not the html element

So when a new recommendation video is loaded it is not blocked, because the url is different

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Re:Hide all numbers that relate to dark patterns by vanillaicesquad on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:12PM (#34101171)

So the actual question is, is there a plugin that blocks html elements by selector and works correctly?

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