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http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40446

Or install this simple greasemonkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/95362

Erm, embarassing moment... someone already has.

Remember the olden days when you could [x] kill a domain that didn't ever want to see again?

Why did they ever get rid of that?

I've taken to using this instead, works great. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156

Use Greasemonkey. Because it's your web.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/89694

I have just written a Greasemonkey script for that: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/91959

The internet is a fucking shopping catalog.

Not long ago I was looking for some ebook reader review (a sony one IIRC) and all that I got from Google was pages and pages of advertisement.

Google results are only bearable after using Google Filter scripts.

And with this new development, it is clear that the Google search service is not providing complete results sorted by "importance" but that are actively filtering out web pages due to pressure of third parties.

Time to try Bing?

Moderatrix, Your second chance when moderating slashdot.
I do recommend.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/70028 allows Firefox to use the Flash plugin to play HTML5 H.264 video.

There's a script for that

There's a script for that

Add a confirm button: http://userscripts.org/users/73030

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582

Here's a user-side answer in the form of a Greasemonkey script... /. could thereotically implement a bit of JS like that server-side (this works with a bunch of URL shorteners)

Now that Javascript is so much faster, perhaps the browsers can focus on giving some type of automated/intelligent control over when it is used and how so older machines won't come to a CRAWL because of all the cutesy animation and junk spread over most big sites now. (And no, NoScript doesn't cut it- too complicated for most users, not automatic, too easy to break Javascript that is actually needed, etc). Suppress time-delayed actions, disable tight loops, throw artificial delays in loops under user control, visually tag elements to manually "play" on-demand only or stop after X seconds. I know, keep dreaming.

i think fixing the bugs on file would be a better use of time instead of worrying about your 400MHz PC. besides, just use scripts from userscripts.org to fix the "big sites" sites. if userscripts are too complex for one then one should stay off the internet.

buy an upgrade or gtfo my internets.

Neither link resolves to Goatse, but the first does resolve to a PDF.
The first does have "PDF" in the real URL.
For that and other reasons I like the http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582 greasemonkey script.

*cough**cough**cough*

Here's a Greasemonkey based permanent solution

Thanks to xpnd.it I don't have to rely on being warned. Just have to hover over any shortened link to see where it ends up.

Or you could install this GM script which expands them to the real URL without actually loading it.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582
Greasemonkey script with analogous function.
Despite the name, it works for things in addition to TinyURL.

If you happen to use Firefox and Greasemonkey here is a script that automatically appends Coral Cache links for Slashdot as well.

I used Greasemonkey with the Youtube Video Download script. It embeds a button on the page and doesn't involve external sites. It's pretty handy if you watch/keep a lot of stuff on Youtube.

It leads to here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ

Slashdot's bracketed-domain-name thing helps, but I like the "TinyURL Decoder" Greasemonkey script for such purposes: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582

(already modded in here, hence anonymous)

CanvasBlock? :) They say it has stability problems but I'm sure those will get ironed out (possibly through an actual plugin rather than a greasemonkey script) when the need arises

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/63631

There's a Greasemonkey script that will show the conversion in a tooltip:
script

Although they reverted this change, I'm still pretty weary of the direction that Real ID is going. Personally, I've opted to delete all official WoW forum posts using a GreaseMonkey script I've found: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/81103

No idea why they introduced fading-in text, but there's a greasemonkey script to remove it:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/63436

As for the background images, even if it's an obvious attempt to emulate bing and a shift away from the minimalism that drew most to Google, it wouldn't have been too bad if they didn't screw it up so badly.

The closest you could come to opting out was selecting an all-white background, but because the text was white with a grey shadow, that didn't work too well either. While most backgrounds were pretty pictures, they made dreadful backgrounds -- conspicuous, blending badly with the text, slow to load (relative to the very simple white background).

A simple "remove background" would have sufficed, but even without it a little usability testing of the backgrounds they actually used wouldn't have hurt.

Even the Google Image searches - its annoying that I have to click on the image and then click on another one to get linked to the full size image.

Viola!

I was going to write a Greasemonkey script, but there's already a ton of them to address this bug.

Here's one that seems to work: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/76060

He's "bitching" because maintaining a scraper is intensely time-consuming (trust me, I've written many many scrapers and greasemonkey scripts, including a Scroogle userscript). The IE portal was static for years upon years (see TFA), so the scraper needed no maintenance, which is quite different from any other results display.

However, writing a minimal stripping scraper shouldn't be too hard. Here's an email I sent to Scroogle:

Even if you can no longer offer a completely cleaned search results list, serving a somewhat cleaned version shouldn't be terribly difficult; just remove JS bits and rewrite the forms and images to point to locally hosted copies at scroogle.org. This should remove the cookies and other tracking bits and shouldn't actually be too hard to do (or to maintain).

If you also pass it through an adblock subscription (or equivalent), the ads could be stripped as well, without requiring ongoing maintenance since it comes from another party. If this is too complicated, I think it fair to assume your users will be doing that.

Thanks for running the scraper for all these years!

The value of a social network is proportional to the number of members it has. Facebook started in 2004 aimed at students, grew for a while, and in 2006 opened membership to everyone. It was two years after that (and two years ago) when Facebook exceeded Myspace, and it's just been pulling ahead since. It's now blown away any previous social network scale now. If you started tomorrow with a compelling site people might use instead of Facebook--the same way that Facebook was a compelling improvement over Myspace--best case it would be two years before you'd even have a shot of being popular enough to be considered a viable alternative here. The unfortunate reality here is that making this sort of site available to most people for free costs somebody money, and that will never go on forever without somebody trying to make a buck. Social networks trying to expand are practically forced into it just to pay for their overhead as popularity increases.

As for the privacy issues, I never told Facebook anything private in the first place; anybody who did is a fool. I didn't care that they were throwing ads in my face that were obviously targeted to interests I listed in my profile to make ad dollars; expected that, all part of getting the site for free, and things like my music/movie likes are quite public information already. But last week when I visited cnn.com to read a news story, and it magically showed me what news stories my Facebook friends had been looking at (and presumably exposing what I was doing to them), that was the point where I felt myself that Facebook had gone rogue. Time to use UnFuck Facebook and crank up the rest of my hostile site defenses now. Facebook I'm now treating like a link that might lead to p0rn: I might still go there if because it's fun sometimes to look at, but I won't be adding to their ad income and I expect the site to be hostile. And I'll go out of my way to avoid all the sites they're selling my info to as well.

Tabloid rags? WSJ? Geez, I'm as non-Republican as they come but you sound like an idiot saying that.

He does sound like an idiot, until you read some of what the WSJ has become under Murdoch. Once you have the context, his comments don't sound stupid at all. Sure, the WSJ still has plenty of decent business news, but now it is laced with editorials and "business" news stories that are laced with Murdoch's political agenda ... the days of an unbiased, factual WSJ are long gone, more's the pity.

Unfortunately, our perception of the rag lags well behind the change, and will probably do so for quite some time.

Thankfully, for those of us still investing and engaged with the markets, there are better alternatives:

http://www.ft.com/

with various localizations, and without the Murdoch poison:

http://www.ft.com/home/us
http://www.ft.com/home/uk

So let them ringfence Murdoch's tripe (even the formerly great WSJ he is wrecking). Please.

Or don't wait for Rupert to take both barrels to his own feet and do it for him: filter his tripe out of Google News yourself (I use both approaches: "take off, nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure"):

1) Bespoke AdBlock Rules

Open FireFox, go here and install AdblockPlus:
http://adblockplus.org/en/installation

You should have a ABP stop sign looking thing to the right of your FireFox search box. Click the little arrow to the right of it. Click preferences. Click Add Filter. Paste in:

news.google.com##*[href*=".foxnews.com"]

Murdoch ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corporation ) also owns The Wall Street Journal. Add Filter again, and paste in:

news.google.com##*[href*=".wsj.com"]

2) Greasemoneky Script

Get Greasemonkey:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

Get Sterc's script:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/61397

"Laugh it up" :-)

[ Source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/news/thread?tid=10c7469adda1fdac&hl=en ]

I use Facebook Ad Remover: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/68361 It works fine on Firefox and Chrome, and does a great job of removing ads on Facebook, which AdBlock seems to miss.

Guess what, I'm using it.

ROFL, wait, so you're defending Firefox's idiotic stance while, simultaneously, actively attempting to work around it? Hypocritical much?

No, I'm defending Firefox's stance because it's moral, and branding it a lost cause doesn't make it idiotic. And no, I'm working around Flash, as I have before with http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771

Nice straw man though. Maybe I should pull a Godwin on you: joining the German Resistance was obviously idiotic, right?

As far as non-Windows users are concerned, the most painful problem is Flash being crap for video playback, and the fix for that is one add-on or greasemonkey script away.

That's not a fix. That's a hack to work around the Firefox devs. But if you're happy with a degraded browsing experience because Mozilla can't get their heads out of their collective ideological asses, that's your choice. The rest of us will just move on and find a project that gives users the option to make their own choices, as opposed to dictating to them from on high.

Please do. In case you haven't figured out, you're 100% free to switch to a different browser, or fork Firefox and port the Fennec changes you seem so familiar with. Would you now please let "the rest of us" make our own choices too?

No, garbage is saying the war is over

What war? You really think Firefox choosing to hobble their browser is gonna somehow change the software patent landscape? Please, get real. The users will move on, baffled by Firefox's stance, and Mozilla will achieve nothing while damaging their own reputation in the process.

I hope you do realise you sound like a desperate guy ditched by his girlfriend, who's screaming out loud how his life will be great without her, while she'll suffer like hell because he was the best thing that ever happened to her...

Lieber Herr Gott mach mich stumm
Daß ich nicht nach Dachau komm.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62062 seems like just the thing for you, and trust me greasemonkey scripts work really well! Case in point: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5738

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62062 seems like just the thing for you, and trust me greasemonkey scripts work really well! Case in point: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5738

His point was that
1. Windows has mostly very crappy ideas and concepts. I mean: Draggable windows? Icon bars? WTF? Why so inefficient?
2. There are much much better solutions. Lise in: XMonad as a window manager. keyboard-controllable functionality [try this extension if you want to see a different and much better concept that merges the power of VI-style control with the simplicity of a menu / icon bar]

I use Greasemonkey with the Youtube Title Adder script. It appends the title of any youtube video to any link to youtube, thereby alerting you to the content of said link.

Granted, I use this more as a method to see what people are linking to as I can't reach youtube through the corporate firewall, but it works as a rickroll defense, too.

LOL. Care to modify my Greasemonkey script to match any values of your variables?

I’d love to read Slashdot that way.

Just because it is common, and just because you are used to it, that does not mean that it is in any way good. You know: Correlation is not causation.

I agree that Gimp has a horrible interface. But I think that nearly every single graphical user interface out there is a unacceptable piece of horrible shit.
First of all, because it’s all extremely monolithic. You can’t pipe anything to anything. A bit of drag-and-drop does not solve that. You can’t use your gimp brush in your OpenOffice document. You can’t use TeX inside every program with graphical frames, etc, etc, etc. They are basically appliance-simulating programs. Like your hi-fi system or TV. They lack any freedom to combine trough generic interfaces.
Then everything nowadays tends to be strongly focused on the retardedly inefficient one-pointer point-and-click system. Despite you having five very flexible fingers on two hands. Despite keyboard combos almost always being quicker. (Acknowledging valid exceptions like drawing like with a pen, here.) (Also, with a good interface, the argument of having to memorize the combos, is invalid. See my Slashdot editor for an example. [Select something, and then hold Ctrl in it.])
Which results in the stupid menus and icon bars/blocks like you see them nowadays.
And finally, most developers still seem to live in the not-invented-here world, with respect to property sidebars/boxes. (Like the famous Lotus InfoBox, which unfortunately still was point-and-click.)

:s/1:\$/%/ ;)

P.S.: Hey, you can actually have that replacement right now:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62062
Just add the expression in there. :)

What, why is this marked troll? I really do have this replacer: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62062
And I thought it was a funny bug, that shows how such replacers can never be perfect. Like that filter that replaced “assassinate” with “buttbuttinate”. :D

Someone should make a greasemonkey script that replaces the H.blah thing with mpeg or flv - whichever Firefox supports. The tricky thing would be to fake browser title (Safari or Chrome) only on youtube sites - since Youtube doesn't really give you the video tag on other things as far as I can see. Faking is possible to change in about:, so maybe someone already wrote an extension to do that on the fly (would need to be modified to do it automatically on *youtube.com* sites), so some sort of mix should be made - I don't really know the limitations of either - perhaps you can do it both in just greasemonkey.
Alternatively (and until then), you can use this script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771 (it's free software)

If you use firefox, there's a greasefire script called Moderatrix that adds a confirmation button to the /. moderating system.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47300

You don't have to subscribe to the FT to read it for free.

If you've got Greasemonkey installed, I just made a script for that. Curiously, Google apparently sends you the actual URL, then inserts the redirect in onmousedown.

http://www.consumingexperience.com/2009/10/google-search-results-redirection.html

and from there:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/57679 - Google Search - Remove Redirection /anon - forgot to add that info to my above post. *twiddles thumbs waiting for the cowboy to slow down*

If you use Firefox, have you tried some greasemonkey script that replace the Flash player with an embedded version? Like http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46219