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A site is hiding my vertical scrollbar. How do I force the site to show it to me? [More inside] (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by InevitableSwing@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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The site is the nytimes.com and I'm a desktop.

Test page - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/world/israel-iran-us-nuclear

There's a delay (~3 seconds or so?) before they get annoying.

I poked around after using the inspector and I made some Ublock Origin filters...

[Edit - Today, I removed the code. I learned the paywall is far from soft. On article pages - my code fubar'ed the layout. Plus only the top ~1/3rd of articles appear the rest remains hidden.]

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I have Bypass Paywalls Clean v4.1.4.0 but it's disabled for the the Times. If it's enabled the site often entirely blocks pages so I need to use Ublock - if I can.

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children) 
nytimes.com##STYLE[data-lights="css"]

might work. If not, look through the css and find what might be doing it (if you don’t know how, paste it here and I might be able to find it), then use Stylus to override it.

A brute force method:

* {
    overflow-y: auto !important;
}

in Stylus might fix it, unless they’re doing something more complicated. But it might also add scrollbars in weird places.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A brute force method:

Ah! Now I just have to try to figure out how to squeeze that into Ublock. It can use CSS but the syntax gives me a headache. And you have to reload the page each time—

Maybe I'll just install Stylus.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

If you get extra scroll bars in weird places, there's a decent chance this would work instead:

body {
    overflow-y: auto;
}
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