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65 points ryzalyusoff | 2 comments | 16 Dec 19 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source

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franciscop ◴[16 Dec 19 14:43 UTC] No.21803313[source]▶

This functionality has been baked in Firefox for a long time and I use it quite often. Not only makes the ads and other clutter disappear, but it also removes most of the "disable your adblock" unclosable popups.

It is definitely one of the super-nice things to have baked in straight in the browser, and probably one of the major differences I see between Chrome and Firefox in day-to-day usage. I just wish that somehow it was persistent for certain rules, but I can see how that is a slippery slope.

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1. PretzelFisch ◴[16 Dec 19 16:49 UTC] No.21804444[source]▶

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I don't see this feature in firefox. If the Firfox team put effort into the ui and feature discoverability it would make it much simpler for a chrome user to switch.

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2. franciscop ◴[16 Dec 19 23:37 UTC] No.21808778[source]▶

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It's visible only in article-like pages and it looks like a document icon in the navbar.

In Firefox for Android is the only non-essential icon in the navbar (besides the tabs and more settings) for articles. On desktop it shows at the right on the search/url box.

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