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aaronldickman / nobloatfandom

Chrome extension to remove the crap from fandom.com wikis.
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Remove "Please help us customize your experience" popup #2

Closed ChiefArug closed 1 year ago

ChiefArug commented 1 year ago

image More bloat, there is no reason a wiki needs to know this. It pops up after spending ~1 min on a page.

I've found just deleting the element using inspect element works fine, but I'm not familiar enough with extensions to PR that.

aaronldickman commented 1 year ago

1) Are you logged in when you see this?

2) Can you link a page that you're seeing this on? I've seen some fandom wikis have elements that others don't. In a fresh browser I'm not seeing this on any of the wikis I use to test.

ChiefArug commented 1 year ago
  1. No
  2. The Minecraft wiki, namely this page https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Custom_world_preset though I have seen it on other MC wiki pages.
aaronldickman commented 1 year ago

Reproduced.

Looking at it... I'm not sure if this is bloat, or even strictly tracking related. Looks like clicking it sets a cookie with {over18: bool} on it. I think odds are its bloat (based on the phrasing of the popup), but just in case this is compliance-related I don't want to touch it.

Looks after you make a decision it doesn't trigger afterwards so I'd recommend just doing that. Run a separate extension like uBlock Origin or Ghostery if you're worried about the tracking. If you're blocking first-party cookies I believe uBlock Origin has a way to blacklist elements which could be another solution to this problem.