Reviews for Element Blocker
Element Blocker by Luke Peters
Review by Firefox user 12214924
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 12214924, 2 years agoI see no way to USE this. Why do you add-on guys NEVER give simple instructions? Right-clicking gives no options, Left-clicking just triggers the popup. Is there some kind of icon to click somewhere? Why assume people will "figure it out" when everyone's got customized setups? Even if it's a simple one-click process I can't troubleshoot it if I don't know what that process is.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoWhen you install an add-on it creates an icon for it in your add-on icon area (to the right of the address bar). If you have many add-ons installed there probably isn't room in your browser bar, so click on the puzzle piece icon to reveal hidden add-ons.
This isn't something I as an add-on developer have control over. But it is standard behavior with every single add-on you install - if there isn't room it'll be hidden in this dropdown list. I suppose I could create instructions for this, though it isn't unique to my add-on at all. This add-on's icon is a red square with a white "B" in it, by the way.
Also, "us add-on guys" spend a lot of time creating FREE software used by thousands of people every day, with only the occasional "thanks" in return. This isn't meant as a complaint, because it is rewarding by itself, but a little patience and politeness go a long way 🙂
This isn't something I as an add-on developer have control over. But it is standard behavior with every single add-on you install - if there isn't room it'll be hidden in this dropdown list. I suppose I could create instructions for this, though it isn't unique to my add-on at all. This add-on's icon is a red square with a white "B" in it, by the way.
Also, "us add-on guys" spend a lot of time creating FREE software used by thousands of people every day, with only the occasional "thanks" in return. This isn't meant as a complaint, because it is rewarding by itself, but a little patience and politeness go a long way 🙂
79 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Rainyskyboy, 4 months agoAwesomeness but but i hope customize the keyboard shortcut
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14065238, 6 months agoup until the most recent update when I blocked an element IT STAYED BLOCKED. Now the items I list as blocked keep maliciously reappearing! This is prevalent on Youtube! I was using this app to block abusive playlist content that could NOT be dismissed from the Home page.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18339579, 9 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Cris, 9 months agoNearly perfect. Simple as is but an undo (Strg+z) and a little editable list per domain would be nice!
- Rated 2 out of 5by Kevin, 10 months agoSome more detailed instructions would be useful. I'm not a programmer. I do not pretend to be one. I had to come here and read reviews to figure it out. Seems like a simple paragraph is not that much to ask for.
Developer response
posted 10 months agoThanks for your feedback. I can work to make it a more intuitive experience!
Also, I appreciated your sassy last line there, so in response to that...
Seems like a simple 5-star rating is not that much to ask for. 🤪 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15544790, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18229160, a year agoJust added this add-on on firefox, GOD is so good, the only minus i can say about it is that you can not edit selected elements as you would block selected elements.
i blocked every sidebar on my most visited sites and zoomed en a bit JUST TO HAVE A NICE CENTERED EXEPRIENCE ON THOSE SITES.
4/5 Good enough for meDeveloper response
posted a year agoI'll have to add an edit feature at some point! Thank you for the review :) I'm glad you're finding it useful. - Rated 4 out of 5by danusty, a year agoit sometimes glitches when adding more removed elements from a website making you have to delete all the elements previously added and making you have to add them again. it also doesn't have an export / import settings option.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13997858, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SomeGuysName, a year agoWould have liked to give 5 stars, since this is the only add-on of it's type that consistently works in Firefox, but it needs an ON/OFF mode. Instead of having to activate this add-on for every element I'd like to remove, it would be nice to turn it on, remove everything, then toggle "Element Blocker" off. Too many unnecessary clicks and keystrokes otherwise. Besides that this add-on works perfectly. (Edit: added 5th star for developer responsiveness)
Developer response
posted a year agoHi, thanks for the feedback and functionality suggestion! That's a very good idea - perhaps I can implement an Edit Mode where you add everything you want to block then press Save. - Rated 4 out of 5by Peter Lyons Kehl, a year agoThank you. This works well.
Feature request: An option not just to hide the element, but to make the space it took shrink (if there's nothing else in that table column, or similar). It can be done through CSS, I don't remember if it's visibility, display or what property.Developer response
posted a year agoThis is already how it works. As an example, if you hide all of the contents of a table row, the empty row will still be there. Instead of hiding contents of the row, you should hide the row itself, and then it's space disappears. Sometimes when you hide an item you don't get the parent element, so just hide and hover over the area again to find and hide it. - Rated 1 out of 5by bob, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13866330, 2 years agoIt works but it keeps unhiding the element. I want to hide the safesearch is on and it does for a bit then it pops back up. When I hid it with ublock it worked much better(but I had to remove that from the browser for issues with it).
Ps this is to stop a dementia patient from spending ALL day with porn. He's in a much better mood when he just spending his time watching tv shows and movies on the streaming service. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17848028, 2 years agoLove this- can't stand those little advertising movies in the lower right corner of sites. Ad Blockers don't get them - but this does.
- Rated 3 out of 5by GuyFawkes, 2 years agoI like it very much!
Only 3 stars, because two things are missing for me:
1. Writing rules by hand / modifying rules
--> sometimes it is not possible to click the element which should be blocked and you need to click all contained elements to get rid of everything)
2. The possibility to block elements only for a certain URL (and not the whole domain)
--> e.g. blocking video suggestions on YouTube start page is not possible without simultaneously blocking the list of videos when visiting a certain channel (Since both elements have id="primary" and are contained in the same hierarchy)
Probably the best solution would be to allow the user to enter a regex to specify the URLs.
I would implement these features myself, but unfortunately this plugin seems to be closed source?Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for the detailed suggestions and the very carefully selected 3 stars 😜
URL-specific blocking is a good idea. And adding/modifying rules by hand is definitely on my radar as a feature I want to add next.
Regex is great for very technical users, but not for everyone else. I'll try to come up with a more user-friendly approach.
You can and should implement these features in your own add-on and release it to the community! Creating an add-on isn't hard if you have some basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge, which it sounds like you may have. - Rated 5 out of 5by dunberg, 2 years agosimple to block atrocious ads websites and disgusting in most cases combine this with pop up blocker "its just works"- todd howard lol, this is really undetectable because the principle design of this extension is soo primitive in very good way, it's basically youre running f12+ select disabled element manually but with script, so you dont have to do it many times repeatedly, you are doing god works dear devs i really appreciate it
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for leaving a review! And yes, I was surprised that my primitive approach ended up being beneficial rather than limiting. Dear devs = Just me 🙂 I'm glad you're finding the extension useful. - Rated 5 out of 5by Edu, 2 years agoThis extensions is awesome, but should be nice if we could have a key shortcut to pause it instead of click
Developer response
posted 2 years agoGreat suggestion! I'll consider adding that next time I do updates. Thanks for leaving a review. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17715653, 2 years agoWhen using the extension, I did not see the little text only link in the drop down menu to edit the blocked elements on a particular web page. So I went into the app itself looking for something that would tell me how to do that, and found no instructions, just a statement that it would do it. It would be helpful if you would provide some instructions in the app telling people about that small text link, or give it a button like the other features in the app. The screen shots do not really tell anyone how to do anything, they are just images with no explanations of how to get there. You have buttons for every function except EDIT blocked elements. It might be a good idea to make that little text link a button instead.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for the feedback! I'll look into making the user interface more clear and I might create a short demonstration video. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14403620, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jlraposaxx, 2 years agoBoa extensão para bloquear partes específicas dos sites. Com ela, consegui bloquear os stories do Instagram por exemplo.