Turn off drop shadow selection

[Albeitadrift]

Is there a way to turn off drop shadow selection?

I have been creating some LP elements with a UI style, using illustrator as they're just mock ups, not functional or a realistic snapshot, (maybe Figma would be better easier. Anyway.)

There is a lot of overlapping glows and drop shadows, when I'm selecting elements clicking will select the object aboves drop shadow instead. Across multiple elements this can get so confusing.
It sometimes doesnt even seem consistent, such as inability to select an object unless selecting the drop shadow portion. 

[Monika Gause]

In the preferences you could turn on the selection by path only. Then when you click on a path, the object gets selected.

[Ton Frederiks]

And look in the Layers panel to select objects and in the Appearance panel to select dropshadow effects.