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by hendersoon 1247 days ago
I don't want to use another extension. If it could be done inside uBlock Origin, that's about the length I'm willing to go. Barring that, I've found myself simply going to twitter.com far, far less on desktop. And not at all on mobile.
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huhtenberg 1247 days ago
It can't be done with uBlock because Twitter randomized pretty much all DOM element class names. You really need to parse the content, then climb up the tree and trim grand/parent nodes to remove all the junk. Used to be much easier few years ago with descriptive class names, but they changed that.

* I'm not the OP, but I made a similar extension.

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insin 1247 days ago
It's a React Native for Web app, so it's kinda like a reverse Tailwind - you write your styles using the usual CSS property names (instead of having to learn new shorthand names for all of them), then it deduplicates everything at build time and generates one-property-per-selector class names.

They've handily left a bunch of data-testid attributes on some of the major elements you need to identify, like the primary column.

Since it's a React app, manually removing stuff from the DOM will either have your changes get blown away the on the next render, or cause issues on the next render. A good trick is to add your own descriptive classes to <body> for the current screen so you can limit the scope of some of the incredibly gnarly CSS selectors you'll need to use to hide things.

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lpapez 1247 days ago
Ok, so don't use it then or think of an alternate way of achieving the same thing. Why would you even comment something like this?
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hendersoon 1247 days ago
This is a discussion forum in which participants contribute their take on the issue at hand. That was my take, on-topic.

Your response instead attacked another poster, which did not contribute to the discussion at all.

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