December 8, 2008
October 23, 2008
zottmann yahoo? or boohoo? layoffs and underhandedness
Where are the yahoo priorities? Go the way of google socialism in witch clothing, (allegedgly) do no evil, or win at any cost.. both falling woefully short of the mark.
Will yahoo stay true to akebono? Or will the remnants be those already in faustian pacts?
… zottmann
October 12, 2008
hazaa Chromium Iron Fork new first: now with adblock built-in
Adblocking is essential to privacy. SRware’s fork of Chromium, is the only way to use the google (evil ad serving empire) open source web browser. A few bytes closer to ideal:
11.10.2008: Adblocker integrated in Iron
The wish of many users comes true: We integrated an
Adblocker in Iron!
With a filterlist so nearly all online-advertising can be
blocked. A working list can bedownloaded
here and just has to be copied to the Iron folder (e.g:
C:\Program Files\Iron Fork\). Note: You must first get the
latest version of Iron you can find under “Downloads”.
So Iron is the first Chromium based webbrowser worldwide
which has an adblocker included.
It does not fully support the AdBlockPlus format; it is a loose implementation borrowing from http://fanboy.co.nz/adblock
Hopefully SRware Iron Fork will soon tie into the context menu to take advantage of the built in inspector, whitelisting, and element hiding
If one plans to use Steve Pellegrin’s set of scripts to strip down rick752’s AdBlockPlus list, The EasyList, originally intended for BFilter, with SRware’s Iron Chromium Fork some adjustments might be needed
Otherwise manually ditch the whitelist, convert ! to # for comments, and dump $ and following per line.
Portable Iron Fork … eat the web safely
October 2, 2008
chromium fortified with Tempered Iron Fork
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree
Patience minions.. we’re in the same boat when proxomitron filter developers first started appearing. Don’t forget many of them all still active.
The adblocking option oft not mentioned: BFilter
Hopefully the Tempered Iron Fork will outlast the Chrome Fork….
…
hazaa Chromium Iron Fork new first: now with adblock built-in
September 29, 2008
thanks google! your google alerts feature helped us find the first non-google Chromium Fork: Iron … less creepy, more power
http://www.srware.net/software_srware_iron_download.php
Coralized to protect the finances of the generous: http://www.srware.net.nyud.net/downloads/srware_iron.exe
all the speed… less of the creepiness… ahhh open source. Iron: less glamor, more power.
Chrome is seen by some as a google fork of Chromium
still requires loopback webproxy to strip out ads 
On first launch of Iron I was surprised to see the sites I most frequently visited in a software package that had never run on this XP SP3 box.
update server taking a pounding?
March 13, 2008
make yahoo mail suck less – remove yahoo ads remove yahoo skyscrapers
prerequisites:
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
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January 10, 2008
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
November 23, 2007
November 8, 2007
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;
}
}
September 26, 2007
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
September 24, 2007
no more DRM plugin detecting scifi channel site tsk tsk
AdBlock Plus filter rule:
20DRM%3B
et al
August 12, 2007
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.
June 27, 2007
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
June 9, 2007
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?
