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ks 5 months ago | link | on: Who will steal Android from Google?

This is one of those rare pieces that are at once informative, insightful, and entertaining.

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LibertarianLlama 6 months ago | link | on: Is it possible to make the donation progress bar hideable / collapsable?

I don’t see why this progress bar should be obnoxiously put at the top of the page. It’s cool if you wanna do a donation drive but don’t push it in the face of everybody who comes here. Honestly at first I thought this was a bar for site expense. Then I realised it’s to ‘adopt’ an emoji.
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  pushcx 6 months ago | link
  
  Lobsters isn’t a daily visit for most readers, probably even for most users. They can’t see it to join in if there isn’t anything visible for it, and it has an id for adblocking if you prefer not to see it.
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    jpm1 6 months ago | link
    
    Personally a check this site quite regularly on my mobile device… which doesn’t have an ad-blocker.
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      azdle 6 months ago | link
      
      That sounds awful. If you’re an android user, normal uBlock Origin works on Firefox for Android just like it does on desktop. :)
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        fs111 6 months ago | link
        
        Or use Block This!, which blocks ads in all apps.
        
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        azdle 6 months ago | link
        
        Oh, that’s a cool little tool. Using a local VPN to intercept DNS is a neat trick. Unfortunately doesn’t help with in this case because it blocks requests to domains and not elements on a page via CSS selectors.
        
        That does make me want to actually figure out my VPN to home for my phone and setup a pi-hole, though.
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        jpm1 6 months ago | link
        
        Ohh! Good to know, thanks.
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      cnst 6 months ago | link
      
      Firefox 57+ has integrated adblocker nowadays, on both desktop and mobile; plus, there’s also Brave.
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    isra17 6 months ago | link
    
    That is still annoying that I need to setup my adblocker to fix lobste.rs. So much for all the rant articles about bad UX/UI in here.
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    zge 6 months ago | link
    
    maybe one could just add a dismiss button or sometimes like that? I don’t find it that annoying, but I guess it would be a pretty simple solution.
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      tedchs 6 months ago | link
      
      I concur, either a client side cookie or session variable.
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        zge 6 months ago | link
        
        Well, yeah… that’s how you could implement it, and I guess that would be the cleanest and simplest way?
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    tedchs 6 months ago | link
    
    It’d be great to see data about that! Personally I visit daily or at least 3 times a week. Lack of clutter and noise is one of the biggest advantages of Lobsters. And specifically, I looked at the link, and I have no idea who this Unicode organization is, or their charitable performance, or even if they need the money. I’d imagine they are mostly funded by the rich tech megacorps?
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    quad 6 months ago | link
    
    [citation needed] ;-)
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  ks 6 months ago | link
  
  Adopting an emoji isn’t the end goal: the money goes to Unicode, which is a non-profit organization that’s very important to the Internet.
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  peter 6 months ago | link
  
  If this bar actually significantly annoys you, I’m surprised you haven’t literally died from browsing the rest of the internet.

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dsschnau 12 months ago | link | on: Advice for a Junior Developer

you’ll be fine. harden up and keep going.
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  pab 12 months ago | link
  
  FWIW, telling people in crisis to “harden up” is rarely helpful.
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  ks 12 months ago | link
  
  This is not good advice.