What happens when you’re browsing in digital media and suddenly signup forms pop up asking for subscription, payments or logging in it?
It’s annoying; you leave the website, or simply you sign up and keep reading. Or you could even pay for it so they won’t bother you again.
This is the users’ conversion, from a marketing perspective.
Problem is, an almost forced conversion (by the way, not recommended by White Hat UX methods) is a practise we doesn’t like. It’s at this point when we decide to develop bookmarklets in charge of deleting and hiding them, while browsing.
The next version of these tools is a browser plugin doing the work behind the scenes. As per AdBlockers do to avoid ads showing up.
The original GitHub repository is no longer available; this page remains as a record of the project.
How the experiment worked
A bookmarklet is a small script saved as a browser bookmark and run on the page a person is viewing. This experiment used that mechanism to hide interface overlays and sign-up prompts on digital media sites. The appeal was its simplicity: the user could trigger it on a particular page without installing a full browser extension.
The planned next step was a plugin that could perform the same action automatically. The original repository has disappeared, so there is no working code to offer here. This page documents the idea and its limitations as a historical project. Other browser and web experiments are listed in the projects archive.