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One of the best things about ad blockers is that they are really just general purpose content blockers. Want to disable this permanently? Here's an Adblock Plus-compatible filter to block the div if you find it annoying. Tested and working on uBlock Origin:

  ! Disable link preview popups on Wikipedia
  en.wikipedia.org##.mwe-popups
It's just a div with the class ".mwe-popups", and using your ad blocker will persist the change after clearing cookies, which the preference setting (mentioned elsewhere here) does not.

For Wikipedia in different languages, just change the subdomain in the filter.




A user stylesheet can also be a content blocker, and it doesn't require a third-party extension, and it works across all domains (Wikipedia languages): https://github.com/kengruven/config/blob/master/.calm.css#L2...

It's frustrating that every popular webpage nowadays is so full of distractions that I can't use the web without blocking a lot of it.


Or log in and click the box in preferences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...


You can disable them by clicking the little gear icon on the pop up itself. I figured that out by googling aroung for half an hour.

It's just wretched, backwards UI all around.


As OP stated, that's tied to your cookies though and won't be a "permanent" solution.


I would expect the setting to persist if you're logged in but that's probably not something people do on Wikipedia.


I do, but that's only because I edit every once in a while.


Thank you! I found those things incredibly annoying and useless, and was just about to dig through the source to figure out how to get rid of them.


Also, they are javascript based. They do not appear when running NoScript set to blockk wikipedia's javascript from executing.




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