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 one off, delete it, or clear a whole site.
Why the usual fixes do not stick
Hiding something is easy; finding it again three months later is not. Tools that write rules into an opaque blob leave you with no way to answer "what did I hide on this site, and why is this page missing a column". Every rule needs to be listed, attributed to the site it belongs to, switchable without being deleted, and readable as a sentence rather than a selector.
How to do it with BowerBird
- Open Settings from the popup.
- Expand Advanced, then Your hidden elements.
- Toggle, delete, or clear a whole site.
Worth knowing: Rules built on a positional selector are marked, because those are the ones most likely to need repair after a redesign.
Without granting access to every site you visit
BowerBird installs without asking to read or change your data on any website. Its ad and tracker blocking runs on rules the browser applies itself, which needs no site access at all. When you hide your first element on a site, it asks for that one site, from your click, and you can revoke it later in settings.
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