Discussion on New York Times (NYT) Sanity | Userscripts.org

Where to put updated code?, replied by traycerb

traycerb — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:17:12 +0000

thanks. had gotten used to NYT's interference, but this worked right away. long live abp!

Where to put updated code?, replied by Steve Matuszek

Steve Matuszek — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:51:46 +0000

I couldn't get the stopObserving method to do the trick... but what did work was just telling Adblock Plus to block http://*/altClickToSearch.js. Presto, absolutely nothing special happens on any sort of click.

Where to put updated code?, replied by traycerb

traycerb — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:05:01 +0000

One update: can get rid of the actual pop-up "question mark" by highlighting text in nyt, then using Adblock Plus's "Select Element to Hide" option and clicking on the "question mark." I chose filter options to limit the domain to nytimes.com and added the "title=Lookup Word" checkbox.

works fine, but still doesn't stop nyt from intercepting Autocopy's function...

Where to put updated code?, replied by traycerb

traycerb — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:39:12 +0000

NYT changed their code, and someone provided updated code in the (archived) discussion section, but I'm not sure where to place the code. The code is reproduced below. Trying to get rid of their script as it interferes with FF's autocopy addon.

The TImes changed the script again. Now, it uses Prototype and only pops up a question mark. To get rid of it, you can use:
addEventListener("load",
function()
{
window.location.href = "javascript:void(document.stopObserving(\"mouseup\"));";
}, false);

Archived Comments, replied by Matthew Flaschen

Matthew Flaschen — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:56:48 +0000

(updated, as now only works with onload as below)

The TImes changed the script again. Now, it uses Prototype and only pops up a question mark. To get rid of it, you can use:

addEventListener("load",
function()
{
window.location.href = "javascript:void(document.stopObserving(\"mouseup\"));";
}, false);

Archived Comments, replied by elbel

elbel — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:47:14 +0000

Ditto: Thank you thank you thank you.

I've actually written to the times' webmaster about this... Some people, when they read on the web, like to click around the page a lot. (It's something like 30% I think.) I'm a clicker and it drives me nuts to constantly have to close that damn window.

They replied that they're aware that the doubleclick is annoying and that they're working on a new system that is less irritating to clickers.

Archived Comments, replied by ebcindc

ebcindc — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:57:43 +0000

Oh, thank you thank you thank you thank you!

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:23 +0000

The following is an archive of comments made before threaded discussions was implemented (November 16th, 2008)