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Little Hack
It annoys me whenever I encounter a website like quora which hides the real content with a overlay and a pop up to sign in. Little do they know I just delete the overlay element from the Dom 😁😁.
Who else does this?

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  • 5
    Lol me too
    But i eventually got a little browser extension that does it with one click though.

    It knocks off any sort of overlay , just dont click it more than once per page or it kinda buggers the DOM lol
  • 2
    @boubalo
    Hey I think a extension is kind of a overkill but why not it's fun making one. Can you tell me more about making extensions, how much time it takes and other good resources etc. I am front end developer BTW.
  • 5
    TamperMonkey/GreaseMonkey ftw!!
  • 1
    Me too doing the same for Quora..even I have account with Quora
  • 0
    I do this with the Boston Globe. Their paywall can just be deleted from the dom.
  • 1
    I'm so doing this now.
  • 0
    I believe most of us do it If we don't have another option.
  • 0
    I do that all the time, especially when watching tv/sports online with all the ads.
  • 3
    The best part of being a dev: you can manipulate the DOM when a website doesn't behave well or as you expect #wk23
  • 3
    Some website use redirect. I manually slow the page load so I can stop it before the redirect.
  • 1
    @0tikurt not if they disable right click with javascript!!! In that case, there's nothing you can do, well nothing except for:

    [ ctrl ] + [ shift ] + [ i ]

    God do I love shitty DRM
  • 0
    Firefox private window
  • 1
    I've created plugins like this for news sites in my country. I wanted to publish it on GH but people told me not to because of legal stuff..
  • 0
    I do that all the time. I do that with Instagram when I just want to see an image and not have to log in.
  • 0
    @simeg Well if emulators are okay why not extensions right ? I don't think there will be a problem because of just a little extention and I didn't hear anyone getting sued for blocking annoying elements. You are acessing any non public data you are just changing the site into a more usable version privately. I think it would be under fair use.
  • 0
    I like using stylish for things like that. Though its very site specific you can't go wrong with it.
  • 1
    @boubalo name please
  • 1
    protip for quora, add as a querystring ?share=1 and tada !
  • 1
    It's useful to change input type from password to text in case you want to see what you are typing. Or if you want to hack some accounts 😎
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