I too am a highlighter :)
But the good news is that the DOM skeleton is so minimal that you can create a stylesheet that does exactly what you said. Given the reference to the selection, positioning the popover is up to the developer.
Suggestions are well accepted.
The same thing on Medium appears perfect without any social media link.
The first icon should be Twitter, so maybe it's really Adblocker. I've tested it with uBlock Origin and it shows the same behavior but, honestly, I don't want to tamper with that.
In fact, the sharers that are provided are meant to be examples, and not part of the core library. I guess simply changing the name attribute of the sharer would end up in showing the button.
Besides the old repo URL will still redirect to the new location after you've renamed the repo on GitHub by going into settings and changing it there.
Does it happen to you in other cases as well?
Edit: unless you were referring to the whole aspect of the page. In that case, it's just a presentational page for an open source project, so it has nothing to do with blogging platforms. That should be ok, I guess.