Sillier than usual, that is.
The most important (ok, most read) newspaper in Spain, El País, is telling me that they will decide on how I must use my browser to visit them, and which add-ons I can and cannot use.
I hardly ever visit this silly website anyway, but I do not like people telling me how to use my stupid browser. Specially if they are going to get all silly about it. Here is what I got today:
“Please, disable your adblocker, subscribe or fuck off. “
Yours silly, El País.
I know what you are thinking, trying to prevent access using a silly modal window is kind of silly, right?
I thought that too, and decided I would see how long it would take me to remove that modal window. About 3 minutes, all this while discussing Matilda with Julia.
We only need to hide that modal window and to re-enable vertical scroll. Two CSS rules, that’s all. I added them using this Chrome addon:
Silly CSS rules are rather silly, indeed:
/* Hide silly modal window */
.fc-ab-root {
display:none;
}
/* Re-enable silly vertical scroll */
html {
overflow-x:auto
}
This is silly. El País, please stop being silly.
Update: as I just found someone who had thought of this first, as it always happens:
Source, here.
(function() {
"use strict";
$(document).ready(function() {
function antiwall() {
$(".fc-dialog-container").fadeOut();
$(".fc-dialog-overlay").fadeOut();
$(".fc-whitelist-root").remove();
$(".fc-ab-root").remove();
$(".salida_articulo").css("overflow", "visible");
}
setTimeout(antiwall, 1400);
});
})();
