Looking for a way to automatically blocking the annoying CSS social media side bars

[everway9]

Hi everyone.

This may not be the right forum to ask this question. However it's a great forum where there always seems to be someone who knows.

More and more these days we see a vertical bar at the left side of web pages with social media links. I believe they are called CSS Social Media Sidebars. They usually cover up what your trying to read. They really annoy me and I was wondering if there is a way to automatically stop them loading with webpages.

I know that you can use Ad Block Plus to remove some but that doesn't always work and it's not automatic.

Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Colif]

Have you tried Ghostery? it lets you select what parts of web sites load and might let you block them. I won't link to it as there are different versions for each browser

Ad block plus also takes money from advertisers and lets their ads through so better off using Ublock Origin

 

[kraelic]

+1 vote for Ublock Origin and Ghostery combo

 

[Martell1977]

I've been using AdBlock Ultimate in Firefox and it catches a lot that Adblock Plus misses. Plus, ABU lets you block specific elements.

 

[everway9]

See... that's what I mean!! There's always people who know what they are talking about!

Thanks very much for the suggestions. I'll give them a go.

 

[everway9]

Whats cosmetic filtering in uBlock?

 

[everway9]

Awesome. I've installed both uBlock and Ghostery and I get no CSS bars anymore... so far anyway.

Cheers.

 

[kraelic]

Whats cosmetic filtering in uBlock?

This option enables the parsing and enforcing of Adblock Plus-compatible “element hiding” filters. These filters are essentially cosmetic, they serve to hide elements in a web page which are deemed to be a visual nuisance, and which can't be blocked by the net request-based filtering engine.

 

[Colif]

This enables the user to block elements they don't want to see on a more direct level and it's highly useful.

 

[everway9]

Thanks.