What URLflows for Page Pruning does

Point and hide

Start the picker and the page becomes selectable. Whatever is under your cursor lights up, and a banner across the top reminds you what you're doing: Click an element to hide it — Esc to finish. Click, and it's gone. Keep clicking to hide more, then press Esc.

There's no filter syntax to learn, no CSS selector to write, and no rules file to maintain.

It remembers, per page

Every hidden element is remembered against the page you hid it on. Come back tomorrow, next week, or after a browser restart, and it's still hidden — the rules are re-applied the moment the page loads, before you see it.

Crucially this is per page, not per site. Hiding a recommended-videos sidebar on one article doesn't blank things out on unrelated pages of the same site.

No blank gaps left behind

Hiding an element often leaves its wrapper behind — an empty container that still has its own height and padding, so you trade a banner for a mysterious white gap.

URLflows checks for exactly that. If hiding what you clicked would leave its parent visually empty, it hides the parent instead, and keeps walking up as far as that stays true. You get the layout closing up properly rather than a hole where the thing used to be.

A record of what you've hidden

Open the popup on any page and it lists everything you've hidden there, each entry labelled with the kind of element it was and a snippet of the text it contained — enough to tell the cookie banner from the sidebar. Remove entries one at a time with the × button, or press Restore all on this page to bring everything back at once.

Nothing leaves your computer

There are no accounts, no servers, and no analytics. The list of what you've hidden is saved in your browser's local storage, on your own machine, and is never transmitted anywhere.

Related guides

Get set up with Install URLflows for Page Pruning, then dig into the picker in Hide elements on a page. To understand exactly when a rule applies, see How pages are remembered.