Comment by neuralkoi
10 days ago
I recently found this out the hard way. Instagram’s web app has a super annoying popup. To click the comments button for a post, your cursor has to pass over the username, which just happens to launch a profile preview with the “follow” button exactly where the comments button was, causing you to unintentionally follow the account.
I tried to block this popup with uBlock Origin to no avail. No matter what element I selected, it was still there. Finally fixed the problem by deleting my Instagram account.
A counter example: I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday but it turns out uBlock can filter out the ads, boilerplate, sidebars, join/login buttons etc on the main site. It's actually faster and more usable than the old site now.
Small win.
>I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday
It appears to still be up for me. ??
"anonymous" is the key word. old.reddit still works (though it seems to get progressively jankier), but it's now requiring a login.
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It's A/B tested across IP ranges, geolocated regions, etc. I got it super early and it sucks being locked out for the past 2-3 weeks now.
You now have to be logged in to reddit to use it.
Not sure there's been a hard date publicly set but they are sunsetting it
Reddit tested login walls on the new site since months.[1]
[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/32706
nah, now it loads maybe 3 posts at a time and the latency is really slow to pull up those 3
How do you filter it out? Do you select each element individually?
Yes, the Element Picker in uBlock Origin. Requires Firefox because of Web Manifest stuff in Chromium.
Best move you could have possibly done.
> Finally fixed the problem by deleting my Instagram account.
The real fix!
> Finally fixed the problem by deleting my Instagram account.
The best solution. Highly recommended.
Never delete your account. That account has a bunch of associated signals that scream "real user". Therefore you should sell it on an account marketplace to a spammer, if you really hate the platform.
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