Workable Bookmarklet based method to remove the popup dialog
As I mentioned in another thread, after I posted the last message here I got to thinking that there had to be an easier way to get through this (and other) popup modal overlays without resorting to addons or "hacker/developer" techniques. (When I said 25 lines of code in that other thread I was initially thinking about a different approach, but once I opened the text editor to start, I realized it was a trivial task)
eBayPopupDialogBeGone:
Here is a very simple bookmarklet that disappears the "My eBay is getting easier and simpler to use" modal dialog that some users can not click through or dismiss. This popup occurs on https://www.ebay.com/mys/active pages unless the user has be successful at clicking through one time via the "Ok, got it" button. It is for those that just can't get the dialog to go away.
javaXscript:(function(){
var%20ofd=document.body.querySelector('div.welcome-screen-modal-wrapper.me-dialog.dialog--mask-fade');
if(ofd!=null){ofd.parentNode.removeChild(ofd);}})();Copy the above, paste it in the location field for a new browser toolbar bookmark or a bookmarks menu bookmark, name it eBayPopupDialogBeGone (or whatever) As always, you have to remove the X from the javaXscript for it to work (forum software mangles the post if the X isn't included.)
How do you use it?
When you land on the My eBay Active page and the popup dialog appears, click the bookmarklet on your toolbar (or in your favorites or bookmarks menu) and that's it. Dialog is gone.
How does it work?
It is a JavaScript implementation of the Adblock Plus element hiding rule, but the beauty is that it can be encapsulated in a bookmarklet which all browsers can execute natively without addons. (Basically a stupid manually operated adblocker element hiding rule engine.)
It hunts down the div element that is the offending popup and just removes it from the page.
The drawback to this bookmarklet approach is that it is only temporary, unlike the Stylish or Adblock Plus approach which automatically removes the popup every time it appears. If the page is reloaded or you navigate away and back, the dialog will reload, and you will have to click the bookmarklet again.
Was tested in Firefox 31 and FireFox 52.2.1ESR
The exciting thing about this technique is that the bookmarklet can easily be extended to handle any eBay popup that one may encounter by just adding the new selectors to it. It isn't possible to make it universal because of the numerous ways eBay implements and labels these modal dialogs, but if I can grab ahold of the dialog and determine a suitable selector for it (or somebody grabs the selector for me), it can easily be added to the code.
What that means is that there can be one bookmarklet to handle the half dozen? current popup dialogs that various eBay users are encountering, which would just walk through all the possibilities and remove them if present.
(I will need help from the community with determining selectors for other dialogs though, as I can't/don't see many of these dialogs myself and therefore can't inspect the HTML/DOM. This particular dialog is permanently gone from this user account because I clicked through it, but I was able to use another of my accounts to test this bookmarklet, but many dialogs others see I never see for whatever reasons like browser flavor, etc)
