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I've been using Stylebot with great success. So much so that when I visit sites on other peoples machines it takes me a minute to figure out why certain sites are so hideous

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What's the advantage of Stylebot over Stylish?

I've not used Stylish, but from looking their Chrome Extension page it looks like they don't allow you to write CSS for pages, but rather apply themes that have been built for sites by third parties?

Stylebot lets me just write css, or can grab an element off the page and they give you a GUI to edit the most common style properties. The ability to just write CSS as simple as .stupid-ad { display: none; } is what I was after.

Stylish lets you write your own CSS. It doesn't give you a GUI for it, it expects you to look up the elements yourself. I have custom CSS for a number of sites, and find Stylish sufficient.

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