My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

>>mig4ng+(OP)
Personally I have to hide Stack Exchange’s trending questions on my work machine. Those things are catnip to me.

  askubuntu.com###hot-network-questions
  serverfault.com###hot-network-questions
  stackexchange.com###hot-network-questions
  stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions
  superuser.com###hot-network-questions

Also many sites disregard prefers-reduced-motion, so I’m often hiding visual distractions like endless carousels and cute decorative animations.

>>aendru+gq
Same here! Although my rules look a bit different because I simply use the element picker:

    stackoverflow.com##.c-pointer.js-quack-btn
    stackoverflow.com##.js-step01.js-step.step.ws-nowrap
    stackoverflow.com##.js-step02.js-step.step.has-width.ta-center
    stackoverflow.com##.quack-popover--arrow
    stackoverflow.com###overlay-header
    stackoverflow.com###feed-link
    stackoverflow.com##.mb16.s-anchors__default.s-anchors.s-sidebarwidget__yellow.s-sidebarwidget
    stackoverflow.com##.grid--cell.js-reactions
    stackoverflow.com##.mb16.s-anchors__grayscale.s-anchors.s-sidebarwidget__yellow.s-sidebarwidget

Unfortunately, I also didn't comment what these are all for. But I think one of them is the banner, which might contain calls for voting and such. Another is the "Featured on Meta" box and the sidebar on the left which I never use. And the most recent thing, which isn't included above is the obnoxious popup for the "New Search AI Experience".

And this does not even include the goddamn cookie banners, for which ublock has a separate rule set fortunately. Unfortunately, it's the rule set that leads to the most problems because some sites don't work correctly or don't load at all when the cookie banner has not been interacted with. I hate the modern internet without ublock.

>>mxmlnk+oa1
These with generated ids and classes might be hard to maintain. If you like to change those to the classes/ids that are human readable and easy to maintain, and comment them, feel free to contribute them here: https://github.com/mig4ng/ublock-origin-filters/pull/4

Thanks for sharing.

zlacker