Sagacious Himself — brevity in circumlocution – suffering genius

December 8, 2008

oberon interactive: visual menu hell

Filed under: AdNoyances — Sagacious Himself @ 2:50 pm

plenty of selections: no useful information

081208-oberon-interactive-visual-menu-hell

here

October 23, 2008

zottmann yahoo? or boohoo? layoffs and underhandedness

Filed under: AdNoyances, All Your Base, CIO — Sagacious Himself @ 2:01 am

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 Forkeat 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

Filed under: AdNoyances, All Your Base, DARPA, open source — Sagacious Himself @ 11:57 pm
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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

Filed under: AdNoyances — Sagacious Himself @ 9:58 pm

PSA

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
0

to this:


0

with only

x

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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.

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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

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November 23, 2007

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

Filed under: AdNoyances — Sagacious Himself @ 9:47 pm
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I’ll use whatever device I please on your network

screwing verizon my new hobby

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November 8, 2007

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

Filed under: AdNoyances — Sagacious Himself @ 4:04 am
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@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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September 26, 2007

today’s NoScript makes yahoo broadband satellite map iframe NoFun

Filed under: AdNoyances, DARPA, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, firefox — Sagacious Himself @ 8:30 pm

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

http://maps.yahoo.com/broadband

iframe unfun

September 24, 2007

no more DRM plugin detecting scifi channel site tsk tsk

Filed under: AdNoyances, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 1:44 am

AdBlock Plus filter rule:

20DRM%3B

et al

August 12, 2007

block flash interstitial ads

Filed under: AdNoyances, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 3:07 pm
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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

Filed under: AdNoyances, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 12:27 am

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?

Filed under: AdNoyances, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 7:47 pm

“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?

June 2, 2007

ahh irony

Filed under: AdNoyances — Sagacious Himself @ 12:17 am

stupid tag

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