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I happened to click a link that took me to the associated ~~twitter~~ X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it's nothing new. I've got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What's the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you've encountered recently?

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anybody know why google has a popup on every major website now? And more importantly, how to get rid of that without creating an account?

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

uBlock Origin Filter:

||smartlock.google.com
||accounts.google.com/gsi/$3p
||id.google.com^

||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean uBlock Origin, right?

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 14 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's the only one you should use

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It works 🫡 thank you 😊

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disable all third party JS in uBlock origin

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

this comment will not get any upvotes from anyone who follows it 😁

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why? It's how I browse every day

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's really interesting, I hadn't tried this in a long long time. Some sites are simply broken, others drag themselves along half broken, but lemmy seems to be doing alright weheee

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use uBlock's "Medium mode" that (for some reason) is hidden behind several obscure steps: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

Anyway, yeah, it pretty much breaks every website the first time you visit. Well, every domain at least. But once you figure out which scripts to allow to get it functioning, you can save individual settings for each site/domain that load automatically every time you visit afterwards.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That can cause the page to fail to load in some instances.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some specific websites might need tweaking but from anecdotal evidence about 90% of websites work just fine. YMMV though because I don't visit twitter

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A number of the more tech savvy online newspapers have begun enforcing client-side scripts as a means of preventing people from reading articles without a subscription.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And they get to deal with a combo of NoScript and UBlock origin from my Librewolf instance. If I really can't get in, I'm going to HackerNews