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iOS 18 has fulfilled my dream of destroying ads with a Thanos snap

It’s easy to vanish anything from a website with iOS 18.

Apple is clearly just as frustrated as I am, so it’s added a Thanos snap animation to iOS 18 that wipes out annoying parts of websites. It’s designed to let you temporarily remove annoying and distracting elements from a mobile website, including cookie prompts, ads, those infuriating autoplay videos that follow you around while you scroll a site, and more. In the latest iOS 18 beta 5 release you have to tap on the same button you’d use to enable the reader mode — which also lets you focus in on text on a website — to be able to hide parts of webpages.

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