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by consumer451 332 days ago
Same here. Right-click the page and choose Inspect (or Inspect Element). Click the Console tab, paste this code, and press Enter:

    document.getElementById("presence")?.remove();
If you want to know why this is happening in your brain, it's likely a prey/predator identification thing. I would like to think that being so distracted by this just means I have excellent survival instincts :)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0703913104

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_%28neuroscience%29

2 comments

Can just right click remove node.
I thought my instructions would work universally, across all desktop browsers. I have also been known to overthink things.
uBlock Origin also lets you "zap" elements away. No console fiddling required.