make yahoo mail suck less - remove yahoo ads remove yahoo skyscrapers

prerequisites:

firefox
greasemonkey

With this userscript you’ll no longer have to suffer with those annoying margin ads that you had to click an expander to hide:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3115

Go from this:
you’ll have to imagine an annoying ad because I had ablocking enabled.. but the annoying space still remoained

to this:

with only

IF you use mail-classic also install this userscript

compose text area enlarger
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/15821

Clean up yahoo IF you have a Core2 Duo or more powerful computer:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/19141

BCC for privacy

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Opting out of Omniture’s 192.168.112.2o7.net, the lazy way

If you don’t want to use hosts to block Adobe’s use of Omniture’s 192.168.112.2o7.net then OpenDNS to the rescue

sign up for an account https://www.opendns.com/start/

claim your IPA

mash settings

domain blocking

enter: 192.168.112.2o7.net

configure your workstation or router: https://www.opendns.com/start

The straight dope

Our nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

yay

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verizon: your creative billing has gone too far — the winds of change are blowing — I’ll use whatever device I please

I’ll use whatever device I please on your network

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digg home (for games) stylish - remove sidebar and diggs full width

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain(”digg.com”) {

/* main page full width */
.main {
margin-right: 0 !important;

}
/* bye sidebar */

.sidebar {
width: 0px;
display: none !important;

}

}

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today’s NoScript makes yahoo broadband satellite map iframe NoFun

Yeah, yeah configuration… but how many peak of bell curve people will want to play with IFRAME settings?

http://maps.yahoo.com/broadband

no more DRM plugin detecting scifi channel site tsk tsk

AdBlock Plus filter rule:

20DRM%3B

et al

block flash interstitial ads

add .mochiads.com to your AdBlockPlus filters (ctrl+shift+a, or r-click ADP icon)

I’ve been debating telling the AdBlock list people about this, but the flash developers like to think they have gamers captive.. so I’m sharing my “amazing” discovery with you: NO more in-game interstitial ads.

…. its and ADP feature I’ve been requesting for a while…  extension to have the same ‘power’ as the browser

alternatively:   x.mochiads.com    to use games.mochiads.com   … other fun combinations.

cleanup mapquest with AdBlock Plus element hiding addon

mapquest looks much cleaner with these AdBlock Plus element hiding rules

mapquest.com#DIV(class=offers screen)
mapquest.com#DIV(class=offers clear)
mapquest.com#DIV(class=disclaimer clear)
mapquest.com#DIV(id=mqfooter)
mapquest.com#TD(id=rightcolumn)(class=drawer)
mapquest.com#TD(class=leftad)
mapquest.com#TD(class=rightad)

removing the righthand ad-container expands the map area

advantages of buying online music outweigh piracting FLAC how?

“you can just do anything you want with licensed music”

Pay for non-CD music: “get” DRM, privacy violating meta content, can’t use with devices the way you want

Pay for CD music: sometimes “get” malware bonus, can use with devices the way you want

pirate FLAC music: can use with devices the way you want

so the advantages of buying online music outweigh piracting FLAC how?

ahh irony

firefox extension: slow loading page element nuke

There needs to be an extension to ’speed up’ slow loading site pages by nuking elements (or temp blocking) that fall well below the average page element load time — or a specified load time.  No more waiting on cross domain loads, bloat, or objects in high demand.  Once could set a global threshold and thresholds for individual domains or domains+paths

getfile.biz file2you.net — free FTP upload file hosting looking grim

the former is unreliable.  the latter tries to install a malware firefox extension.

that’s about it for zero-registration free FTP upload file hosting

arrrg now wordpress is as useless as blogger… quit eating my posts!!

webpanel or performancing in firefox

posts to null

yay

pesky greasemonkey

document.evaluate(”//a[text()="click me"]“, document, null, 7, null);

innerHTML.indexOf(’click me’)

http://briandonovan.info/articles/public/gm-dom-xpath-01/

http://ripwiki.pbwiki.com/XPathTips

http://zvon.org:9001/saxon/cgi-bin/XLab/XML/xlabIndex.html?stylesheetFile=XSLT/xlabIndex.xslt

http://zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html

the future of broadband TV is Flash module hacking

The reason I “pirate” TV episodes is because I’m too lazy to build a PVR.  I was just enough UNlazy to hackup my xbox to boot Xbox Media Center, and use it to pull episodes from another computer.  And yes I prefer them commercial free.

So online, broadband TV? Its not full screen, I cannot watch it on my big screen TV.. and uck there are non-integrated commercials.  The solution isn’t yet stream adblocking… instead its the fun of flash module hacking.

Most people will suffer ads… but I will not be among them

combine eight of your grocery club cards into one card

http://blendedtechnologies.com/justoneclubcard/index.py

ShortShip Pro — first NAGWARE firefox “plugin” ever!

http://shortship.com/

Until hacked it requires the user to activate it: click their affiliate link once every seven days or the extension will cease to function correctly. Extensions don’t have the power to disable themselves, so it will just cease to show the shipping charges on ebay search results.

Since the source contains this entertaining message:

shortship.jar\shortship.js

AD REMOVAL - screw ebay ads, we already pay them 15% to use their service, and we value our desk space they shouldnt care, theres already a plethora of adblock type extensions available.

I’m sure ShortShip won’t mind having their activation removed. screw nagware.

“and is affililate supported. Both are completely free for you to use, and both are free of nag screens, pop ups, pop unders, or any other annoying things that I hate in software and would not expect users to have to put up with.”

And if it were OPT-in supported:

- shortship pro wouldn’t have to be nagware
- only one version of the shortship extension would need to be released
- simply installing a product is NOT sufficient for an OPT-in model
- shortship stealing toolbar space IS ANNOYING

fortunately it is extremely easy to remove the malware aspects and render the plugin opt-in support again Much like the xbox hacking project this information is provided for educational purposes. If you modify the extension please support the author.. by actually opting-in to support him.. or not if you merely like tweaking. Performing these modifications will annoy the developer a little more than he annoys ebay by removing their ads.

You’ll need:

a text editor that doesn’t suck
WinRar or a decompression tool that can open JARs, which are really zip files
some time
a loathing for ads
a desire to tweak

- download the xpi from addons.mozilla.org
- change the addons file extension from XPI to XPI.ZIP
- open the xpi.zip

I’m bored so I’ll write the rest of the directions later.. its easy.. try it.. improve them.. but don’t redistribute the modified xpi

my lawyers tell me I can provide these directions

ShortShip Pro — first NAGWARE firefox extension ever!

http://shortship.com/

Until hacked it requires the user to activate it: click their affiliate link once every seven days or the extension will cease to function correctly. Extensions don’t have the power to disable themselves, so it will just cease to show the shipping charges on ebay search results.

Since the source contains this entertaining message:

shortship.jar\shortship.js

AD REMOVAL - screw ebay ads, we already pay them 15% to use their service, and we value our desk space they shouldnt care, theres already a plethora of adblock type extensions available.

I’m sure ShortShip won’t mind having their activation removed. screw nagware.

“and is affililate supported. Both are completely free for you to use, and both are free of nag screens, pop ups, pop unders, or any other annoying things that I hate in software and would not expect users to have to put up with.” — oscar

And if it were OPT-in supported:

- shortship firefox “plugin” wouldn’t have to be nagware
- only one version would need to be released
- simply installing a product is NOT sufficient for an OPT-in model
- short ship pro stealing toolbar space IS ANNOYING

Do NOT try this at home as it will annoy the nagware author:

download the extension
append .zip to the filename
extract the contents and directory structure
find and unpack the JAR file in the chrome subdirectory
using a real text editor (neither notepad nor wordpad) open [filename].js
search for [stuff] change the second and third instance of false to true
save the file
open the extension as zip, navigate to the chrome directory, open the jar, drag [filename].js into WinRAR, close winrar, when prompted update the xpi.zip, close the first instance of winrar, remove the .zip (so the extension is only xpi)
drag the xpi into firefox to install the hacked shortship pro extension

there, now its no longer nagware. IF you enjoy the extension donate to the author

again do NOT perform the steps in this thought experiment

thought experiment temporarily munged as I wrote it from memory and do not recal the particulars of the ONE file needing modification or the search point for the nagware timer. There are many entertaining ways to do this. When the author makes his extension comply with the spirit of mozilla by making the payment system OPT-in this hack will no longer be necessary. Sure you could comply with his wishes… but whose to say that what he wants should trump what you want? Espcially if you’re not re-distributing his extension

oh no, shortship pro guy, other people are onto you, too

itrack.it popups in firefox: evil page layering

Filterset.P currently isn’t blocking itrack.it popup overlays.  Only Filterset.G is blocking it by default.  d’oh.  There’s also NoScript, but that breaks too many normal people sites.

cartouche? cartoon? .. kartOO is still online

and still very flashy

hopefully someone else has discovered how to remove the ’sponsor’ adNoyances*.

* yet another awesome word coined by Sagacious Himself in 2003.  This week  includes ‘SEO Black Boxing’.. but never forget moralphobe, moralphobia, and moralphobic! … the latter three are now in use by other people.  teehee