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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Thankfully, most of the ads were quite well hidden on my Firefox mobile with the ublock origin addon, but still plenty of bullshit to trawl through.

Are there any extensions which can filter out that "Read more", and "follow us" crap?

I suppose the last one isn't bothersome, but the first two are still annoying.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I run a pihole and see basically the same thing you do. I think the stuff that’s left is built in, hosted on their own domain. If that’s the case, probably not blockable across the board.

With a quick search I found an extension called ‘block “read more”’, but it’s 2 star with 2 users so… idk maybe there are better ones but it looks like that extension had to be done for each website, rather than universally, so it’s a very small list.

If you don’t mind doing a bit of work for it, and the complaint stems from the same set of websites, there’s an extension called element blocker that lets you block whatever you want from a given website, like chat popups and stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Don’t look at it Marion!

(Seriously, I don’t think there is).