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Hell, I'm watching it on an open source OS without flash

I've written 4 popular greasemonkey scripts and two extremely targeted FF extensions for small web communities. Jetpack always struck me as being promoted by people who had an oversized view of their own importance. Check out how active Jetpack discussion is on the userscripts.org forum: http://userscripts.org/forums Yeah. Come back when you have something interesting that works, until then leave me alone.

How this looked with my Greasemonkey script:

Childish approach? He’s just mimicking the $puppet1 Standard Operating Procedure. Yeah I can see how that’s childish.

I’m not sure if you’re trying to say that the $puppet2s are no less or more childish than the $puppet1s (if you are, I agree with you) but you do know that he’s a $puppet2 with, of course, a history of controversies, right?

You seem to be confused in thinking it’s “$puppet1 Standard Operating Procedure” when in reality it”s "Politician Standard Operating Procedure."

Instantly removes the distortion goggles. :)

I installed Greasemonkey just to get rid of experts-exchange. This script does it: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1898

You can work around the problem:

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

I looked for a website providing similar lookups but didn't find one.

theres a greasemonkey script for that..

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/44459

Limit the number of views? You mean like the FT does? That doesn't work.

What is Cluster 9??

Oh wait...

The PRC is also recruiting from its growing population of technically skilled people, including those from the private sector, to increase its network capabilities. It is recruiting skilled network operators from information technology firms and computer science programs into the ranks of numerous Information Warfare Militia units.

“network operators”.. “Information Warfare Militia”.. What?
Try actually reading the linked PDF and see if you can take it seriously. All this stuff about increased “network attack incidences” and I can find absolutely nothing explicitly linking any incident with the Chinese government or anything even making explicit what a “network attack incident” is. (Also “network warfare” is a pretty small part of the report itself; the report isn’t about “network-warfare”, but US-China relations.)

What’s wrong with that?

Oooohhh... I seee... Well, there’s a “app“ for that! :D

there's a script for that.

Indeed. "Cluster" is a more fitting word. I just wrote the Greasemonkey script, and changed it to use that word: unCloudedThinking 0.1
For the fun, I also throw in a replacement of "hacker" with "cracker" and some nice Unicode characters. Feel free to add more. :)

Sorry to double-post, but I that adds confirmation in case anyone is interested in this

Here's a greasemonkey script that was published a few days ago:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/61397

It replaces Fox News and WSJ headlines and links with some hard-coded strings. Change in the source as appropriate.

(Not the original author btw; found it as a followup to a Fox-free news request in Google groups.)

The way to view the video is to use an external site (NeoSmart's site to be precise) to find the MP4 on Google's servers and display it using the video tag. All the script does is add a link to the YouTube page that redirects you to NeoSmart's viewer.

A far better solution would be something like YouTube Without Flash Auto or YouTube Perfect, both of which (among other features) locate the MP4 client-side and present the video right in the YouTube page using whatever plugin you assigned to play MP4 files. If this can be pulled off without involving any external sites, I see no reason that a conversion to HTML5 video tags can't be done the same way.

Disclaimer: using those scripts to view YouTube outside of the Flash player violates the ToS.

The way to view the video is to use an external site (NeoSmart's site to be precise) to find the MP4 on Google's servers and display it using the video tag. All the script does is add a link to the YouTube page that redirects you to NeoSmart's viewer.

A far better solution would be something like YouTube Without Flash Auto or YouTube Perfect, both of which (among other features) locate the MP4 client-side and present the video right in the YouTube page using whatever plugin you assigned to play MP4 files. If this can be pulled off without involving any external sites, I see no reason that a conversion to HTML5 video tags can't be done the same way.

Disclaimer: using those scripts to view YouTube outside of the Flash player violates the ToS.

What is this bullshit? When did Slashdot become a wank-fest of useless, ignorant blather? I used to come here because people had useful, informative, and insightful things to say, kind of like this exchange or this one.

Sure, there were always the trolls, but there were so many knowledgeable people that you had a good signal to noise ratio. Yet, now, in a story with almost 300 comments, there are maybe three to five comments where people know enough to contribute to the conversation.

Yet those comments sit at 0-2 while the ignorant and easily-proven-wrong shit that you posted gets modded up. It's fucking embarrassing. Did you bother to read up on the subject before you opened the mouth attached to your brainless head?

1. Chrome is a fucking open source project, so you can take out anything you don't like, or if you're worried about monitoring, you can just use Iron.
2. Adblock+
3. Gestures
4. and yes ... Flash blocker

5. In fact, all userscripts are installable as regular Chrome extensions now, just by clicking, but you'd know that if you knew anything about the subject.

   Next time you want to spout off, do everyone a favor and spend three seconds to ask Google (or Bing or Yahoo), check your facts, find out that you are wrong, and change your mind about hitting "Submit." You've been here for six or so years (based on your UID) so you should have learned how to post by now.

   As for the moderators who saw "Firefox is much better" and "Most corporations treat their users like shit," then thought "Dude, he's totally right! +1 Insightful," they should go back to fucking Digg where +1 means "I agree." (Hint: it doesn't here. Read the moderator guidelines.)

What is this bullshit? When did Slashdot become a wank-fest of useless, ignorant blather? I used to come here because people had useful, informative, and insightful things to say, kind of like this exchange or this one.

Sure, there were always the trolls, but there were so many knowledgeable people that you had a good signal to noise ratio. Yet, now, in a story with almost 300 comments, there are maybe three to five comments where people know enough to contribute to the conversation.

Yet those comments sit at 0-2 while the ignorant and easily-proven-wrong shit that you posted gets modded up. It's fucking embarrassing. Did you bother to read up on the subject before you opened the mouth attached to your brainless head?

1. Chrome is a fucking open source project, so you can take out anything you don't like, or if you're worried about monitoring, you can just use Iron.
2. Adblock+
3. Gestures
4. and yes ... Flash blocker

5. In fact, all userscripts are installable as regular Chrome extensions now, just by clicking, but you'd know that if you knew anything about the subject.

   Next time you want to spout off, do everyone a favor and spend three seconds to ask Google (or Bing or Yahoo), check your facts, find out that you are wrong, and change your mind about hitting "Submit." You've been here for six or so years (based on your UID) so you should have learned how to post by now.

   As for the moderators who saw "Firefox is much better" and "Most corporations treat their users like shit," then thought "Dude, he's totally right! +1 Insightful," they should go back to fucking Digg where +1 means "I agree." (Hint: it doesn't here. Read the moderator guidelines.)

What is this bullshit? When did Slashdot become a wank-fest of useless, ignorant blather? I used to come here because people had useful, informative, and insightful things to say, kind of like this exchange or this one.

Sure, there were always the trolls, but there were so many knowledgeable people that you had a good signal to noise ratio. Yet, now, in a story with almost 300 comments, there are maybe three to five comments where people know enough to contribute to the conversation.

Yet those comments sit at 0-2 while the ignorant and easily-proven-wrong shit that you posted gets modded up. It's fucking embarrassing. Did you bother to read up on the subject before you opened the mouth attached to your brainless head?

1. Chrome is a fucking open source project, so you can take out anything you don't like, or if you're worried about monitoring, you can just use Iron.
2. Adblock+
3. Gestures
4. and yes ... Flash blocker

5. In fact, all userscripts are installable as regular Chrome extensions now, just by clicking, but you'd know that if you knew anything about the subject.

   Next time you want to spout off, do everyone a favor and spend three seconds to ask Google (or Bing or Yahoo), check your facts, find out that you are wrong, and change your mind about hitting "Submit." You've been here for six or so years (based on your UID) so you should have learned how to post by now.

   As for the moderators who saw "Firefox is much better" and "Most corporations treat their users like shit," then thought "Dude, he's totally right! +1 Insightful," they should go back to fucking Digg where +1 means "I agree." (Hint: it doesn't here. Read the moderator guidelines.)

BlockFlash2 isn't as pretty as the Flashblock userscript, but works somewhat better. For some reason, certain Flash elements still get through though (whereas in Firefox, the same userscripts seem to block reliably). Keep an eye on Issue 26638.

Adsweep and BlockFlash2 are the Chrome equivalents, respectively.

Adsweep and BlockFlash2 are the Chrome equivalents, respectively.

If Chrome ever gets the necessary add-ons, such as AdBlock Plus, I'm guessing that people will abandon Firefox. There seems to be no hope that Mozilla Foundation will ever be managed well.

(I like seeing ads, I just don't like flashing, moving ads. "Marketing" people are amazingly ignorant, in my experience; they often don't realize that annoying people is not a good way to get customers.)

Chrome 3.0 has support for GreaseMonkey scripts, such as FlashBlock. It takes a little effort to get it working (since I'm in the beta channel - note that this is not the dev channel, it's more stable), but it's definitely worth it.
And for all those suggesting that addins will slow it down, FlashBlock certainly hasn't, and I'm guessing that the builtin Task Manager will keep it that way - the main reason I installed FlashBlock was because I saw how much memory Flash ads were using.

Single page link

Greasemonkey can make this automatic.

Done. Just tell your friends about how Shikaku made it for you.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56790

I'd happily give Facebook my name, address, social security number, and checking account information if they would only introduce a "HIDE ALL QUIZZES" feature.

God, I am so sick of logging into Facebook only to find the feed populated with stupid quizzes like "What type of garden tool are you?" The quizzes are far more annoying than the apps.

Check out Facebook Purity. It works with the vast majority of such things, and even tells you how many it's hidden and lets you toggle them back. I think the author page has an email address where you can send your social and checking account info if you dig it. Paired with Facebook Highlights Remove, you end up with a pretty tidy home page.

I'd happily give Facebook my name, address, social security number, and checking account information if they would only introduce a "HIDE ALL QUIZZES" feature.

God, I am so sick of logging into Facebook only to find the feed populated with stupid quizzes like "What type of garden tool are you?" The quizzes are far more annoying than the apps.

Check out Facebook Purity. It works with the vast majority of such things, and even tells you how many it's hidden and lets you toggle them back. I think the author page has an email address where you can send your social and checking account info if you dig it. Paired with Facebook Highlights Remove, you end up with a pretty tidy home page.

I'd happily give Facebook my name, address, social security number, and checking account information if they would only introduce a "HIDE ALL QUIZZES" feature.

If you have greasemonkey, just install the facebook purity script.

Please reply with your SIN and chequing info.

They serve no purpose other than giving people a way to distribute malicious links.

I get around this by using the TinyURL Decoder script for Greasemonkey. It's explicitly designed to dynamically change shortened links back to the full-length originals, telling you exactly where they go without you having to visit the page itself.

There are only two disadvantages I've found. First, there is a marked delay before it actually decodes the URL, but that's unavoidable. I found the second when visiting the Katawa Shoujo Dev Blog. It seems for reasons related to limitations of Blogspot the link to the IRC server was encoded with TinyURL, because Blogspot wasn't happy with an irc:// link. Unfortunately, the decoder script decoded the URL producing a prompt from Firefox to open the link in an IRC client, then it somehow got re-encoded, the decoder script decoded it again, and I ended up in an infinite loop with Firefox opening up a new prompt every 10 seconds or so.

I managed to fix the second problem by blacklisting the site in TinyURL Decoder's preferences, and they seem to have since fixed the code on their end. But still, that was pretty fucking annoying.

Then you haven't met gorgor in a fark porn thread, then.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47680

Advertisers are gonna love it. You can't switch it off. Great. Thanks.

MUWAHAAHAHAHAH!!

"Password fields are text with a green border" by JoeSimmons:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50622

If Opera had equivalents of [...] Flashblock, and Adblock... I would switch.

You may want to check out http://www.adsweep.org/ and http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46673.

You might want to give the greasmonkey script Facebook Purity a go, it hides all those useless quizes.

I think you want to check out Facebook Purity:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/44459

It's a greasemonkey script that makes Facebook almost bearable to use.

Facebook's been great for finding old friends, but I got so tired of all the insipid quizes and requests.

WSJ gives free access to premium content if you are being redirected from google, facebook, digg etc. Here is a dirty little secret. The entire content on WSJ is available to you for free, if you can trick WSJ into believing that you have been directed to their webpage via digg.com!

Step1) Use firefox
Step2) Install refspoof http://refspoof.mozdev.org/
Step3) Install greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Step4) Install this script in greasemonkey http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42134
Step5) Profit!!

WSJ gives free access to premium content if you are being redirected from google, facebook, digg etc. Here is a dirty little secret. The entire content on WSJ is available to you for free, if you can trick WSJ into believing that you have been directed to their webpage via digg.com!

Step1) Use firefox
Step2) Install refspoof http://refspoof.mozdev.org/
Step3) Install greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Step4) Install this script in greasemonkey http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42134
Step5) Profit!!

WSJ gives free access to premium content is you are being redirected from google, facebook, digg etc. Here is a dirty little secret. The entire content on WSJ is available to you for free, if you can trick WSJ into believing that you have been directed to their webpage via digg.com!

Step1) Use firefox
Step2) Install refspoof http://refspoof.mozdev.org/
Step3) Install greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Step4) Install this script in greasemonkey http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42134
Step5) Profit!!

Because you haven't installed this script.

I hate this as well, and use a greasemonkey script to stop that behavior. Turning this off by default would drastically reduce rick-rolling and might even improve their bandwidth. Or, if they don't mind using the same bandwidth, they could start buffering the video upon page load. This would improve user experience for those with low bandwidth so that they don't have as much stuttering.

This sure is a useful Greasemonkey script.

(It's even better, in my opinion, if you comment out the block of code that replaces the link text with the real URL.)

AutoPager Fx extension

Pagerization userscript

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/44558 greasemonkey script to keep you on https

I've just created a greasemonkey script to force facebook to stay on https while leaving other external http links alone.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/44558

This stuff really pisses me off. Google use to hide their dirty little perversions using an onclick event and I had a GM script to disable it.

Now they don't even bother hiding it. But that's OK because we have Firefox and GreaseMonkey and we can just Make It Go Away®

New greasemonkey script to cleanup all of the googly perverted URLs. Enjoy.

Actually, all you need for YouTube is something like http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/34765

We've been able to embed video without flash for years :)

Someone wrote (and posted) a greasemonkey script a while back. Very useful and slick..

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/37311

Netflix Ajax Remover
This script removes the ajax handlers from all of the netflix add to queue links.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4055

Do you mean that there are people who aren't using the Greasemonkey tag remover script?

It is my opinion that the favicons for a site are very important for recognition (e.g. for completion in the URL bar) for the average user.

Favicons are not necessarily tiny actually. Konqueror has the feature (that I like very much) to set the favicon as the application icon. That has the nice effect that in your pager (the virtual desktop manager in the ) the window area is filled with the favicon. Very nice for switching desktops to the right browser window.

Thirdly, I use http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/27548
It helped me to completely block out that google changed their favicon to an ugly one I can't associate with their website and I can live in my tiny world where they didn't.

I cant stand it because its too attention grabbing; it overwhelms the tab-bar. I'd installed this userscript on a handful of my most used systems to revert the last blue/grey favicon to the older blue/white icon, but now that they've made it even more ugly, I've been compulsively installing the old favicon on every single system I touch.