ekill

It's like xkill, but for annoying web pages instead

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It's like xkill, but for annoying web pages instead

2 followers

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ekill is a Chrome and Firefox plugin for quickly getting rid of elements on a web page.

Launch tags:Browser Extensions•Chrome Extensions•Productivity

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If you have to manually select the cookie popup in order to hide it, how is it less annoying that just pressing the "accept" or "x" button? 😅

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8yr ago

ekill

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@anna_0x Yeah, maybe that's not the best of examples! 😃 You'll be happy in the cases where there isn't an 'x' or a button though! I find that a lot of blog engines, (looking at you medium), presents some very big "bars" atop or bottom of their pages, which just gets in the way. Plus, you can let ekill hold a grudge against an element and have it killed off automatically on subsequent visits. 👍

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8yr ago

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@anna_0x Medium steals a lot of screenspace by default: https://imgur.com/a/7mZmGv3

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8yr ago

@rhardih Oh I see, thanks for the detailed example~ I read Medium articles on my phone so never noticed what they do on desktop. Seems like an adblocker that lets you manually block ads does the same thing though, no? This sure looks like a faster way though.

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8yr ago

@rhardih oh, and if I block say, a cookie banner on one site, when I visit that site again, I assume I won't be presented with the same cookie banner?

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8yr ago

ekill

Maker

@anna_0x It's an opt-in feature, but yes!

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8yr ago

This is a really cool product but some third party javascript elements can't be blocked, like chats windows or in-window popups. Are you going to add the ability to block those? I find it really annoying when bots start talking to me on a webpage.

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8yr ago

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@sean_daly Hey Sean! Thank you for the feedback. Yes, I do plan to improve the 'kill' power as an ongoing effort. It's a hard problem to win out in all cases, since you never quite know what Javascript sorcery is present on all pages. If you have any specific examples, where ekill fails, I'd love to keep track of them, so I can do some experimentation. Feel free to create a new issue on github, or perhaps stick it onto this one: https://github.com/rhardih/ekill...

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8yr ago

ekill

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@sean_daly Callback from the past. This feature got added back in March, with version 1.9. Cheers! https://github.com/rhardih/ekill...

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7yr ago

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I finally got fed up with all the popups and annoying stuff that get's in your way on modern websites and decided to build a small chrome extension to get rid of them. I've open sourced ekill on github, so any suggestions etc. are welcome. Other than that, enjoy browsing the web hassle free!

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8yr ago

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