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So this video is to cover a new bookmark that's called Serial Killer, but to explain why I

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called this Serial Killer, I want to compare it with one that I did last year, which is

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called Node Killer, so you can understand what the difference is and how this name came

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about. So let's drag Node Killer and Serial Killer to the bookmarks toolbar and see what

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they do. Okay, Node Killer, click that and it then lets me make ad hoc selections on

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the page which are then removed as I click. So I might want to say remove this image here,

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this paragraph, or maybe I want to remove all this toolbar, this menu. So that's what

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that does. Now let's compare it with Serial Killer. It takes a very different approach

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rather than clicking on items to get rid of them. It asks you to provide a CSS selector

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for any elements that you want to remove. So let's say I wanted to get rid of header,

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footer, and all image elements. Well that's removed 102 elements from the page. So that's

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what we're left with here. Let's kill a few more things here. Let's get rid of anything

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that's a list item. 277 elements gone. So yep, it stripped it right back. But the idea

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for this really was I wanted to repurpose something for a client and wanted to remove

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a bunch of controls that weren't really relevant for them to have. I just wanted to have them

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have the content and this was a very quick way of removing everything that wasn't relevant

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for them before preparing it. So hopefully you'll find that useful for something.

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