[alphonsegaston]

I frequently have to delete these kinds of HTML nodes off the page just to see if it actually has something I want. I debated rolling my own extension for the common sites where I run into this, but ended up just throwing up my hands at the absurdity of the situation.

[squarefoot]

Same here. uBlock Origin works nice to remove the nags, but some sites just recreate them automatically using random identifiers so that they keep throwing the nagscreens at you at each page reload. Maybe it's time to put those recent AI wonders to some real useful work, say an embedded hardware proxy or an extension that recognizes and deletes nagware on the fly.

[nommm-nommm]

I just hit CTRL-U to read the pages source which contains the text content. Now that I think about it I wonder if reader mode would work. Hey, maybe you can just set your user agent to Google Bot.

[yellowapple]

Reader Mode is invaluable for sites that use Javascript to throw up paywalls when you're in the middle of reading something (Wired does this, last I checked). Sometimes you have to refresh the page for it to fully work, but once you do, the full text is right there, in a format that's much nicer than the original could ever strive to be.

[alphonsegaston]

Yeah I do this too for text stuff. I'm an artist, so I'm often times looking for images though.

[NoGravitas]

It might be worth maintaining a cosmetic blocking list for uBlock that you could share and that others could contribute to.

[alphonsegaston]

That's a great idea! Completely forgot uBlock had this feature:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Element-picker

[dredmorbius]

Installing Stylish and rolling your own styles for those sites with copious "display: none !important;" rules works.

Or console-mode browsers.