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Destroy Entire Websites With Asteroids Bookmarklet
An anonymous reader writes "Have you ever visited a website and been so frustrated by the content, layout, or adverts that you'd love to destroy it? Well, now you can. If you head on over to the erkie GitHub page there's a JavaScript bookmarklet you can drag and add to your bookmarks toolbar. Then just visit any website and click the bookmarklet. An Asteroids-style ship should appear that you can move around with the arrow keys. Press space and it will start firing bullets which destroy page content."
This would have been posted sooner, but I accidentally the submit button.
I guess that's ONE way to disagree with people on Slashdot.
Chrome 6 (and maybe 5) don't allow bookmarks on any page other than the about:blank. So you can't really get a bookmark to click and make javascript happen on the page.
Have you ever visited idle and been so frustrated by the lack of content, layout, and adverts that you'd love to destroy it, and thereby spread the articles across the rest of slashdot? Well, now you can.
You will. And the company that will bring it to you? AT&T.
Of course, pretty soon you've got millions of small pieces of web page debris orbiting your browser. Then your real, working web pages run a real risk of getting hit and destroyed by a piece of debris at over 20,000 mph, thus contributing even more to the debris belt. And when the Chinese start testing their anti-web-page rockets and making even more debris? Well, it's pretty much game over for the Intertubes at that point...
...for at least 18 years now. Too bad it's too late for all those geocities, neon rainbow sites.
Whoa there dude! Check your keyboard, somebody might have slipped you a Dvorak.
While attacking the Slashdot page I found Firefox performance not up to scratch. Chrome 7.x was better but still not perfect.
Anyone know of a high-FPS browser? Do I need a better video card??
And where is the MMO version?
Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
Well, I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or what. It works on the script website, but nowhere else. Yes, I've enabled JS and tried disabling AdBlock-Plus and NoScript. When on /. it just opens to a page of JS script text. I really, *really* wanted to give it a go on Idle. :(
The pages that i hate the most are those that make my computer so slow that playing this is no fun. :(
FRA: STFU GTFO
I will destroy you all....one web page at a time *evil laugh*!!!
I got 3910 for this page, wouldn't let me kill the banner for some reason, guess it's bulletproof.
I tried this in Google Reader and successfully crashed my work computer. That and trying -- unsuccessfully -- to think of something witty for Slashdot has put me really far behind.
I just used the bookmark on alienscientist.com ..... and after annihilating his website with my awesome alien spaceship skillz ... the server upon refresh says the websites bandwidth has been exceeded ....
Why would this happen? I thought this bookmark should only be client-side javascript... so the only reason I can think of that this would cause a drag on his bandwidth would be if he has ajax code that does some loading and if an element does not exist it tries to get it, but I keep destroying it?... maybe I am just the last person to access his site and it exceed his limit (seems to unlikely).... anyone have any ideas?
It even scrolls the page down for you, and wraps your ship around the canvas :-)
Perhaps not as creatively, but back in the *last* century there was an browser addon that allowed you to throw tomatoes, or blast an offending webpage with different weapons [rifle or shotgun IIRC].
You could even screen cap the results and post the mutilated page as well. It soon lost its novelty and waddled off into the dustbin of Idle history. I'm sure this one will as well.
I just wish I could remember who published it, or what it was called.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
at last
How do I shot Web?
Single shot destroys the whole page. Pity, I'd much rather take out certain contacts or emails one by one...
I live in constant fear of the Coming of the Red Spiders.
Since flying offscreen scrolls up/down a page, this is actually a pretty fun way to scroll through a given webpage.
I live in constant fear of the Coming of the Red Spiders.
Yes, but did they write it in 1k of javascript or less?
Hmmm. If I shot up an web-based version of the Koran, will I get death threats? ;)
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
Perfect if you want to kill some time, will be great if this actually can save the result and never see something you dont want again.