[HN Gopher] Banish: New Safari Extension to Block 'Open in App' ...
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Banish: New Safari Extension to Block 'Open in App' Dickpanels
Author : rmason
Score : 20 points
Date : 2022-08-04 20:08 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| lapcat wrote:
| StopTheMadness already had this feature 9 months ago.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/app/stopthemadness-mobile/id158308293...
| wildrhythms wrote:
| The day that old.reddit.com is deprecated will be a very sad day.
| I'm not even a frequent Reddit user, but when I do that is the
| one way I remember to get the best user experience regardless of
| device.
| CharlesW wrote:
| If you use the excellent Apollo for iOS, the combination of the
| Apollo Safari extension (free) and Amplosion ($5, also auto-
| redirects AMP pages) auto-redirects Reddit web links to Apollo.
| Highly recommended if you use Reddit on iOS.
| throwaway81523 wrote:
| > * dickpanel n. : a modal panel or popover a website or app
| presents, deliberately obscuring its own content, to frustrate
| the user with a marketing message; e.g. asking the user to
| install the website's app, subscribe to a newsletter, or disable
| privacy controls and accept tracking cookies. See dickbar.
|
| I call those panels "pies" since getting one feels like having a
| pie thrown in your face. It is intended to be more of a SFW term,
| like when talking to front end devs: could the site please not
| throw so many pies? I can usually block them with adblock but
| doing so can be complicated, since you also have to block the CSS
| change that grays out the main text.
| prepend wrote:
| Good idea and something I expect iOS and Android to embed in
| their OS.
|
| I kind of like the pop ups though as identifies jerk sites that I
| should be extra wary of.
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