The "element picker" feature of uBlock Origin makes it generally easy to manually remove these sort of annoyances too. It can also do things like remove floating headers that follow you when you scroll down the page, covering article text you're trying to read (such as the one that is on the OP blog post.)
I use an add-on called "nuke anything" which lets you just rightclick on anything you don't like and get rid of it. Works great for most things, but element picker works well too.
