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Comment by SilasX | Hacker News Reader

And instagram, since they require you to log in after like ten seconds.

For those who don't know, this is entirely client side. If you want, you can delete the overlay (single div) from the dom and remove an 'overflow: hidden' inline style, and continue to scroll the page and look at pictures without logging in.

Interesting, thanks! Is there an easy way to do that on mobile?

Not that I know. I really miss developer tools on mobile. Developer tools are practically required to be able to use the web these days.

I use this bookmark:

    javascript:(function(){(function () {var i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *');for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {if (getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed') {elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);}}})();document.querySelector('body').style.setProperty('overflow','auto','important'); document.querySelector('html').style.setProperty('overflow','auto','important');})()

I do this already for so many sites these days. And it's fairly simple. I wouldn't mind an extension that automated this for me.

I use ublock origin for this. Just use the dropper to pick the element.

You can also block elements by text content [1], for those that did not know. I ran into a site that tried to counter uBlock by randomized class names, among other things, but was able to target it properly that way.

1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#...

how do you update the inline style with ublock? (its something I've been trying to do)

"Behind The Overlay" :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind-the-ov...

Lammy, you're doing the lord's work

Thank you!

For news sites that do this, you can use textise.net to render a text-only version of the page which will have what you want (the article text).

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