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Comment by imoreno

It's annoying that every time "they" come up with a new antipattern, "we" have to add yet another extension to the list of mandatory things for each browser. And it also promotes browser monopoly because extensions get ported slowly to non-mainstream browsers.

It would be better to have a single extension like uBlock origin to handle the browser compatibility, and then release the countermeasures through that. In fact, ublock already has "Annoyances" lists for things like cookie banners, but I don't think it includes the dick bar unfortunately.

Incidentally, these bars are always on sites where the navbar takes 10% vertical space, cookie banner (full width of course) takes another 30% at the bottom, their text is overspaced and oversized, the left/right margins are huge so the text is like 50% of the width... Don't these people ever look at their own site? With many of these, I'm so confused how anyone could look at it and say it's good to go.

parent imoreno 1 year ago

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