For users that aren’t satisfied with those and don’t mind speaking CSS, Stylish and similar browser extensions are an option. I picked up css customization mainly to add max-width to body text that does not have it, but it’s good for pretty much any case where you think a site designer’s choices were unwise.
Yes, to clarify, this is exactly what I was talking about—styles posted on userstyles.org (and marked appropriately as belonging to GreaterWrong) will become available to anyone who visits GW and has the Stylish browser extension installed.
Since January 2017, the Stylish browser extension has been spyware that transmits every single URL you visit to its corporate owners’ servers. Firefox has just blacklisted it; users of other browsers may want to disable it manually. I think there’s a config option that supposedly stops it sending all that information, if you trust its developers to implement that honestly.
Thank you for the comment; I’ll have to uninstall it from all my browsers. Do you know of any non-malicious alternatives (preferably ones that also work with userstyles.org)?
Apparently there’s a thing called Stylus, forked from an earlier version of Stylish. I expect it works with userstyles.org but haven’t checked.
I believe userstyles.org is owned by the same people who own Stylish; I haven’t looked into whether they do anything evil with it, or whether they could if they wanted to.
For users that aren’t satisfied with those and don’t mind speaking CSS, Stylish and similar browser extensions are an option. I picked up css customization mainly to add max-width to body text that does not have it, but it’s good for pretty much any case where you think a site designer’s choices were unwise.
Yes, to clarify, this is exactly what I was talking about—styles posted on userstyles.org (and marked appropriately as belonging to GreaterWrong) will become available to anyone who visits GW and has the Stylish browser extension installed.
Since January 2017, the Stylish browser extension has been spyware that transmits every single URL you visit to its corporate owners’ servers. Firefox has just blacklisted it; users of other browsers may want to disable it manually. I think there’s a config option that supposedly stops it sending all that information, if you trust its developers to implement that honestly.
Oh… I didn’t know that. :(
Thank you for the comment; I’ll have to uninstall it from all my browsers. Do you know of any non-malicious alternatives (preferably ones that also work with userstyles.org)?
Apparently there’s a thing called Stylus, forked from an earlier version of Stylish. I expect it works with userstyles.org but haven’t checked.
I believe userstyles.org is owned by the same people who own Stylish; I haven’t looked into whether they do anything evil with it, or whether they could if they wanted to.
I don’t think that edit was present when I composed, but thanks.