Comment by kstrauser
15 days ago
Very neat!
For Safari users, don’t overlook that beautiful “Hide Distracting Items” menu which lets you block specific items elements on a per-site basis. Want to permanently hide a popover dialog? Hide it! Hide the comments section. Hide fog layers that obscure the content behind them. I use this all the time.
I can't believe I didn't know about this. I had to track down mediocre extensions to try to replicate UBlock's element blocking.
I did find that Adguard was pretty okay, but this looks much nicer.
uBO lite is available for safari though: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...
Yeah it is now, but it wasn't at the time. I have both Adguard and uBlock Origin Lite installed now. uBlock Origin came out about six months ago (saw on HN): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825
I don't think it's actually permanent though, is it? The items will eventually come back.
It's permanent. However, behind the scenes I'm sure it's using CSS selectors to identify the element you're blocking, and if the server changes that, then it wouldn't detect that exact element anymore.