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Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by Mardeg

Mardeg — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:32:01 +0000

David Tenser said:

“The point of this blog post was to provide a simple method for users who aren’t interested in installing an extension and copying and pasting scripts. ”

So why not include a simple bookmarklet link that does Chris’s suggestion that people can drag directly to their bookmarks toolbar? In case the blog mangles it in the link for my name the code of it is:

javascript:void(location.href=location.href+”?banner=none”)

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by jim

jim — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:05:00 +0000

Just stop the wiki page from loading completely and you can the whole text of the page

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by Chris

Chris — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:40:14 +0000

just add:

?banner=none

at the end of the url…

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by David Tenser

David Tenser — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:37:40 +0000

The point of this blog post was to provide a simple method for users who aren’t interested in installing an extension and copying and pasting scripts.

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by dbcooper

dbcooper — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:43:45 +0000

Or you could block the offending script with adblock plus by adding this filter:

|http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerController&cache=/cn.js&303-4

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by Rich

Rich — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:42:03 +0000

Or you could us the Googly cache. For example:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=631&site=webhp&source=hp&q=cache%3Aen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDeus_Ex&pbx=1&oq=cache%3Aen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDeus_Ex&aq=f&aqi=q-w1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=6851l8780l1l10124l6l5l0l0l0l0l231l734l2.2.1l5l0

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by Stylish

Stylish — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:41:59 +0000

You can also add a userstyle in the Stylish extension:

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

@-moz-document domain(“en.wikipedia.org”) {
#mw-sopaOverlay { display: none }
#mw-page-base, #mw-head-base, #content, #mw-head, #mw-panel, #footer { display: block !important }
}

Comment on The next browser war: Users vs Web Content by CICI

CICI — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:25:07 +0000

Adblock plus is very useful and I can add it in firefox and Avant browser 2012.
More and more browsers can use Adblock plus in their browsers and ADS is very annoying. This is a good thing. Right?

Comment on The next browser war: Users vs Web Content by Benjamin Otte

Benjamin Otte — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:50:32 +0000

So, what about this:
- set a timer (somewhere between 5-15 seconds? Maybe more?)
- when the timer fires, play an audio ad
- trigger another timer in ~a minute

Such an audio ad would:
- force you to notice it as it’s hard to turn off your ears
- not be stoppable as you don’t know where they’re from
- not obscure content you care about
- even be noticed if you switched attention elsewhere (different tabs _or_ different applications)

Essentially, it’s a sure way to get the ad through to you. I don’t know why people don’t focus on audio more…

Comment on The next browser war: Users vs Web Content by Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:29:24 +0000

At first I was like “Well, you could just build in Ad Block Plus”, but then I found out you were talking about design practices.

Why doesn’t some one from Mozilla at least *attempt* to make a inline popup, hover ad etc. blocker? I find the idea that it’s technologically impossible for a browser to tell the difference hard to accept. I’m sure there are some patterns among the popular implementations that can be detected.