Removing social network buttons and widget boxes in webpages ?

[andy8]

Hi All,

Does anyone have a method of removing the Facebook 'share/like' boxes, Google Plus widget boxes and twitter widgets on visited webpages ?

Its very annoying because these boxes sometimes cover the texts I read and even move around the webpages. For example on Guardian.co.uk, there are three different widget boxes : Google Plus, Twitter and Facebook that moves along (even when I scroll).

I'm using Safari 6 to browse webpages. I tried to set using optional blocking via Safari ad-blocker extension but it wasn't successful in removing all widget boxes. Probably there is a special extension specifically for this issue.

 

[SandboxGeneral]

Hi All,

Does anyone have a method of removing the Facebook 'share/like' boxes, Google Plus widget boxes and twitter widgets on visited webpages ?

Its very annoying because these boxes sometimes cover the texts I read and even move around the webpages. For example on Guardian.co.uk, there are three different widget boxes : Google Plus, Twitter and Facebook that moves along (even when I scroll).

I'm using Safari 6 to browse webpages. I tried to set using optional blocking via Safari ad-blocker extension but it wasn't successful in removing all widget boxes. Probably there is a special extension specifically for this issue.

Try Ghostery.

 

[andy8]

Try Ghostery.

Thank you. Would Ghostery have inflictions with Safari ad-block ? Should I uninstall the latter and just use Ghostery as my main ad-blocker ?

 

[SandboxGeneral]

Thank you. Would Ghostery have inflictions with Safari ad-block ? Should I uninstall the latter and just use Ghostery as my main ad-blocker ?

You can try it with both which should work fine. I use it that way.

 

[andy8]

You can try it with both which should work fine. I use it that way.

That would be great. I just hope that it doesn't slow down the browser.
Thank again for the recommendation. I appreciate it a lot.

 

[SandboxGeneral]

That would be great. I just hope that it doesn't slow down the browser.
Thank again for the recommendation. I appreciate it a lot.

In all likelihood, your browsing experience should be quicker being that certain elements are being prevented from loading.

 

[Weaselboy]

I'm using Safari 6 to browse webpages. I tried to set using optional blocking via Safari ad-blocker extension but it wasn't successful in removing all widget boxes. Probably there is a special extension specifically for this issue.

Add this block list to your AdBlock and it will kill the social buttons/widgets. The block list is Fanboy's Annoyances list.