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Very clever, and very good.

As a visually impaired user with larger fonts, websites can be impossible to use. In my experience you are even missing a sticky header which blocks at least 25% of the page. And perhaps a Clippy like assistant, trying to get your attention in the bottom right corner. Other than that this is pretty accurate.



Just a quick reminder to keep this in your bookmarks: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

A life safer especially on the rare occassions where I am using my old thinkpad with 1386x720 resolution.


For about five years i hit this bookmarklet when visiting almost any site. in most cases it gets rid of the cookie banners, bulky headers, and sidebars so this is the true fix for me. If the page doesn't work under all the fixed position junk, then i bounce.


That bookmarklet was a brilliant idea.

I've made a slightly more invasive variation targeting more (potential) annoyances, and I cannot imagine not having it in the bookmarks toolbar now.

http://myfonj.github.io/utils/bookmarklets/sweep-stickies.ht...


There's a Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky I use it often. It also worked great on the presented site.


Thanks for this. Although I have the most issues with sticky headers on mobile. Currently I mostly bail out of those websites.


Looks like something you could do with just a uBO rule now.


Those clippy things are less popular now.

Many of them had an option to upload a file. I would upload something truly reprehensible.




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