How to pause an ad blocker on one site only
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How to manage the elements you have hidden in Chrome Hide enough things and you lose track of what you hid, and why a page looks odd months later. Settings lists every rule grouped by site, with its selector, label and where it came from. Turn
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How to back up and restore your ad blocker rules You set a machine up the way you like it and then get a new one. Export every rule as a plain JSON file and import it anywhere. Import adds to what you have; it never
Read MoreWhy a cookie banner flashes before it disappears, and how to stop it
Why a cookie banner flashes before it disappears, and how to stop it Some blockers hide the banner a moment too late, so you watch it appear and then vanish. It reads as a bug. Hiding rules are registered to apply before the browser parses the
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How to remove cookie banners permanently in Chrome You dismiss the same consent wall on the same site every week, because the choice is stored in a cookie you keep clearing, or the site simply asks again. Point at it once. It stays gone on that
Read MoreHow to hide newsletter popups in Chrome for good
How to hide newsletter popups in Chrome for good You are four paragraphs into an article when a modal covers it and asks for your email. Hide the modal and the scroll lock it leaves behind, so the page keeps working instead of freezing underneath the
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How to hide elements permanently in Chrome Browser devtools can delete an element, but it comes straight back on refresh. BowerBird writes a stable CSS rule instead of deleting a node, so the element is gone on the next visit and the one after that. Why
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How to declutter a website without a reader mode Pointing at every annoyance yourself is the tedious part. Most people give up after two. BowerBird scans what is actually visible on the page, proposes the clutter it finds, and you approve or reject each item before
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How to block a sticky header on any website A sticky header, a cookie bar, and a chat bubble between them eat a third of a laptop screen. Collapse a sticky header instead of hiding it, so the page keeps its scroll offsets and the layout
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