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Alisdair McDiarmid
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Alisdair McDiarmid's personal blog at alisdair.mcdiarmid.org covers programming and hardware. Since 2012, 78 different Hacker News readers have linked it 103 times, most often “Kill sticky headers (2013)”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- Kill sticky headers (2013)66 people · 85 mentions · first linked 2016-04-06
- ARM immediate value encoding (2014)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-05-02
- /kill-sticky-headers3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-12-10
- Kill sticky headers (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-25
What Hacker News says?
I use this bookmarklet to quickly get rid of cookie banners and other banners / stickies : https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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on “No Cookie for You”Submitted Kill sticky headers (2013) as a story · 267 points
HN discussionFor the 'please register' overlays, you need an 'extension' called Kill sticky. It removes all html elements that are styled with 'position: fixed' Here's the link: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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on “Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers”Submitted A bookmarklet to kill sticky headers (2013) as a story · 219 points
HN discussionI don't like stikcy header,s so I use the Kill Sticky bookmarklet ( https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ ) When I do this, some websites do the same thing, i.e. don't let me scroll down. I think calling this the Fuck You pattern is entirely appropriate.
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on “The 'Fuck You' Pattern”Submitted ARM immediate value encoding as a story · 181 points
HN discussionIn case you already haven't, might wanna add the "Kill Sticky" bookmarklet: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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on “DuckDuckGo vs Google”Submitted Kill Sticky Headers (2013) as a story · 176 points
HN discussionYou can make a bookmark called "Kill Sticky" or something and put this in it [1]: javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()…
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on “How I Experience Web Today”Submitted ARM immediate value encoding (2014) as a story · 97 points
HN discussionI have a "Kill Sticky" bookmarklet to do that job, as the first thing on my bookmarks toolbar. I'm clicking that thing all the time, it works great. So long stupid sliding navbars, enter-your-email popups, fixed video autoplayers, etc. I think I got it from here: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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on “Does anyone remember websites?”Submitted ARM immediate value encoding as a story · 83 points
HN discussionHere's a link for something I use on such news and blog sites: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ I works a surprising amount of the time!
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on “Scrollbar Blindness”Submitted Kill Sticky Headers as a story · 22 points
HN discussionThis is something I habitually add to my browser bookmark toolbar: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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on “Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking”Submitted Kill sticky headers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI use the Kill-Sticky bookmarklet for this and all other intrusive stickies, floaties, etc https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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on “Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing”Submitted Kill sticky headers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor "manual" cleanup I'm using slightly extended universal "Sweep Stickies" bookmarklet [1], based on idea taken from "Kill Sticky" [0]. Removes generally all those banners and overlays obscuring content and eating viewport. (Userscript available [2], but I prefer good old bookmarklet way for this.) It literally crawls all elements in page, tests their computed style and removes those with sticky position (and a bit…
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on “Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?”Submitted Kill Sticky Headers (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> The amount of those popups elements I have hidden using ublock with right click, it's staggering. I have a bookmarklet saved that simply deletes fixed elements, making it faster and easier to get rid of those[0]. However I have noticed sites are starting to make their banners more akin to shrinkwrap agreements where they state that dismissing the popup or continuing to read without making a choice is equivalent to…
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on “Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation”Submitted Kill Sticky Headers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMost can be killed with a 'kill sticky' bookmarklet which comes in handy for increasing all kinds of real estate problems. https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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on “Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets”Submitted Kill Sticky Headers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is fantastic, thanks! I started using this "Kill Sticky Headers" [0] I saw on HN once and I find it very useful. I'll give the ublock list a try. [0] https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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on “Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?”Submitted Kill Sticky Headers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGrab the Remove Sticky bookmarklet to take care of that (not my website): https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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on “Cookie Consent Speed Running Game”Submitted Jsmn example: parsing JSON with C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis bookmarklet was well received last time I mentioned it, so I'll link it again: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ Finds anything with position:fixed and deletes it. Reload the page to get the elements back if needed.
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on “How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox”Submitted Kill sticky headers as a story · 2 points
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