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Thanks, that's handy. I wish there was a complement to adblock that removed useless things that cover text, like email harvesting popups and other things that have to be closed manually.

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The problem is that most of these things are hand-rolled. It's not like ads, where you can just block iframes that point at blacklisted domains. The ids and classes of those annoying things will be specific to each site, so it's hard to target.

You could probably remove anything that had onscroll functionality defined, and just accept that it would break some websites.

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