> I sometimes open up the inspector and delete those two divs just to read the page
It's crazy how often I need to do this as well. I remember back in the old days hitting esc would stop all the animations on a page, now you need to inspect + delete those elements.
There needs to be some crowd sourced way of doing this, so if you delete an element and I visit the site, the element is gone.
The one time I tried, I saw that the scripts aren't loaded reliably. Was more aggravating than helpful. Was trying to disable links on the HN homepage that led to paywalled content so that I can avoid clicking on it.
But if it can't work reliably, it's not worth it at all. That's ultimately what makes technical solutions hard, not doing it at all, but rather doing it well enough to be worth the effort.
It's crazy how often I need to do this as well. I remember back in the old days hitting esc would stop all the animations on a page, now you need to inspect + delete those elements.
There needs to be some crowd sourced way of doing this, so if you delete an element and I visit the site, the element is gone.