Hide all numbers that relate to dark patterns

1 point·vanillaicesquad··3 comments

Is there a way to hide all numbers that lead to incorrect judgment of content?

Number of followers, number of likes. Sometimes it's called "gamification"

IN THIS WAY CONTENT WOULD BE NOTICED AT FIRST SIGHT, without the relevance of what other persons think of it.

"How hard could it be? just hide all numbers in every website"

I'm on LinkedIn a lot (don't ask why) and last time I checked they had an ultra annoying animation that jiggles or bounces the "reaction icons" like a thumbs up etc, so that when you're trying to read, your eye is distracted to that part of the page. It's "punch the monkey" level hostile to users, but what you'd expect from that cesspool.

Anyway, to stop having to see it, I used ublock origin to block all the related elements, and, maybe accidentally, also ended up blocking like counts. So it's as you say, I actually would have to look at something without caring what others think. I don't see how you could build a universal blocker. But ublocking whatever elements are displaying the counts on sites you frequent would do it

The problem with ublock is that when you try to block an image: For example, I don't want to see recommended videos at side of youtube. I click the elements that make the text (Like video title, views) and it works! But when i click the thumbail of the recommended videos uBlock automatically blocks the SPECIFIC image (image url) and not the html element

So when a new recommendation video is loaded it is not blocked, because the url is different

So the actual question is, is there a plugin that blocks html elements by selector and works correctly?

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