Built a Chrome extension to remove popups and overlays from websites — sharing how I approached the cleanup logic
I made a lightweight Chrome extension recently to deal with something that’s been bugging me for a while — the ridiculous amount of clutter on modern websites. Between cookie banners, newsletter popups, ad overlays, and fixed headers, it felt like I was spending more time closing stuff than reading.
So I built a tool called **2ThePoint**. Instead of using Reader Mode or external parsing, I tried a DOM-cleanup approach that dynamically removes common nuisance elements from pages — modals, sticky... more