Webuser Magazine 402 Back Issue

HACK ANYTHING ON ANY SITE
Even the best websites can have annoying elements, pages that are slow to load, colours that make text hard to read, adverts that obstruct your view, hard-to-find options and so on. Fortunately, there are plenty of free tools and tricks you can use to fix these problems and make the web look and work the way you want it to. Often, this is as simple as installing a browser extension that will perform the desired ‘hack’ at the click of a button. In this feature, we round up our favourite new ways to change and improve the web. Over the following six pages, we show you how to add useful new features to popular sites including YouTube, BBC iPlayer and Gmail; explain how to remove unwanted elements such as adverts; and show you how to customise the design of pages. We also reveal how to make websites faster and safer.