anyone find a way to get rid of the constantly shifting icons at the bottom of the screen? I'm trying to read and the motion keeps pulling my attention away from the words toward the dancing critters.

$("#presence").remove()

And yeah, I did that right away. Fun for a moment but extremely distracting.

Agreed. It's an absolutely useless feature for me to see as well.

https://times.hntrends.net/story/44813397

I use NoScript, which catches all of these sorts of things by default. I only enable first-party JS when there's a clear good reason why the site should need it, and third-party JS basically never beyond NoScript's default whitelist.

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

Reader mode.

Block ###presence with UBlock.