Ask HN : Freeze that page

[xvillain]

Don't you hate it when something steals your focus ? Some websites have become nigh unreadable with all the singing and dancing flash, gifs, auto-play and what not in the margins, popping up left, right and center, vying for you attention and distracting you. Wouldn't be great to have a plug-in that 'freezes' a page so you can actually read its content without all that jazz ? Is there such a thing and if not, what would be a good approach to go about creating one ?

[wazari972]

I totally agree with you, and I'll also looking for such a tool. Here is the way I deal with css/js/html animation (here with Firefox): right click, Inspect Element, find the DIV holding the moving elements, and REMOVE :) Repeat if it's still moving, refresh if you removed too much! ;-)

[gregorkas]

Probably a tool that clears the page to make it readable, for example: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...

[xvillain]

Not bad, not exactly what I had in mind but surely useful for the more 'dense' sites. Close...half a cigar.

[arxanas]

Readability[1] does a good job at cleaning up a page and leaving only the textual content.

[1]: http://readability.com

[smartwater]

Adblock, Flashblock, and Ghostery.

[mike-cardwell]

NoScript + RequestPolicy