Discussion on Disable Text Ads | Userscripts.org

Fantastic script!, replied by xizdaqrian @ Mon, 18 May 2009 07:55:20 +0000

xizdaqrian — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:55:20 +0000

Thanks for coding this script. I was having the usual horrendous time with the popups over every few keywords. Mostly it was ads for IE8 when I hover over words like JavaScript, browser, and such. I should like to report that it thoroughly cleaned http://www.online-tech-tips.com

Thanks, thanks, thanks!

Vibrant Media and Dog Food, replied by Grant Goodale @ Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:07:13 +0000

Grant Goodale — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:07:13 +0000

Just in case this trips others up: If you've just installed this script and headed over to Vibrant Media's 'What is IntelliTXT' page (http://www.vibrantmedia.com/whatisintellitxt.asp) to see if it works, you're likely going to be disappointed. Yes, the popup continues to work on that page. No, this isn't a bug.

Ordinarily, IntelliTXT is inserted into the page you're viewing via Javascript after the page content has loaded; that insertion is what triggers DTA to do its work. On the page linked above, however, Vibrant Media isn't using their standard Javascript to insert the popup; they've simply embedded the popup in the standard HTML page they're serving. (Check the source of the page.) As such, the Javascript events that DTA relies on never fire, and the popup is displayed normally.

Anyway, hope this clarifies things.

Version 9 is out, replied by Grant Goodale @ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:29:06 +0000

Grant Goodale — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:29:06 +0000

I've (finally!) had some time to work on this - version 9 adds support for blocking several of the new networks (Chitika, InfoLinks and ResultLinks). I've been unable to find examples of either Amazon's Content Links or Clicksor's text link ads - if anyone comes across any in the wild, post a link and I'll add support for them as well.

Archived Comments, replied by Keith Penton @ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:49:16 +0000

Keith Penton — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:49:16 +0000

Great stuff - those ads have really been getting on my nerves

Archived Comments, replied by DeadMilkman @ Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:24:33 +0000

DeadMilkman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:24:33 +0000

There also seems to be a new textad type called ResultLinks, you can find examples on the following page:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/jokes/read/1036848/

Archived Comments, replied by Grant Goodale @ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:55:23 +0000

Grant Goodale — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:55:23 +0000

Gah. I've let this slip - my apologies. I'll have a release out shortly.

Archived Comments, replied by pr1v@c3y @ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:06:29 +0000

pr1v@c3y — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:06:29 +0000

Doesn't work at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ on the Vibrant ads for me.

Archived Comments, replied by #wet @ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:59:20 +0000

#wet — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:59:20 +0000

As I consider IntelliTXT one of the most annoying obtrusions of the web besides the ubiquitous snap.com popups - no complaints, no whining, just a warm Thx from me.

Archived Comments, replied by briansnj @ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:53:25 +0000

briansnj — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:53:25 +0000

Don't know which company this is but these ads are back with a vengeance. I have seen these same ads on several websites.

http://www.disc-tools.com/download/daemon+isoma...

Also, yeah...if you could fix those darn Yahoo words...I think they call them Yahoo Shortcuts or something...it would be awesome to see them go away!!!

Archived Comments, replied by Grinch @ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:14:26 +0000

Grinch — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:14:26 +0000

I'm not using Firefox 3 (I use SeaMonkey) however Vibrant is back. You can see them here: http://www.destructoid.com/teenager-burns-a-pac...

Archived Comments, replied by Dark0 @ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:43:59 +0000

Dark0 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:43:59 +0000

The script appears to have a serious leak/bug. Go to this page with this script enabled and it will take 100% cpu and start eating RAM. Site: http://forum.emule-project.net/index.php?showto...

Archived Comments, replied by wmblewett @ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:51:05 +0000

wmblewett — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:51:05 +0000

Is there support for clicksor ads? I'm not sure where all they're at but I know they're at xtreme-wrestling-network.com. For some reason I'm getting an error from greasemonkey when I try to install the newer script (I'm certain the problem is on my end) otherwise I'd check myself.

Archived Comments, replied by Grant Goodale @ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:24:56 +0000

Grant Goodale — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:24:56 +0000

@Mikie_: Hadn't seen those before. How annoying. I'll have a look.

Archived Comments, replied by Mikie_ @ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:30:59 +0000

Mikie_ — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:30:59 +0000

Any chance you can take a look at the text ads on Yahoo? I think they are calling them Yahoo! Shortcuts, or some BS like that.

Thanks for an awesome script man.

Archived Comments, replied by Mikado @ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:48:45 +0000

Mikado — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:48:45 +0000

Could anyone explain why having those ads installed by one script and then removing them with another is better than simply preventing them from appearing with Adblock?

Archived Comments, replied by briansnj @ Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:31:57 +0000

briansnj — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:31:57 +0000

Never mind. It seems Firefox RC1 was the problem. Uninstalling and reinstalling fixed the issue. It was very weird though.

Archived Comments, replied by briansnj @ Fri, 23 May 2008 16:33:33 +0000

briansnj — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:33:33 +0000

PS -
Not just Vibrant but AdBrite and probably any other offenders. This is horrible surfing the net this way!

Archived Comments, replied by briansnj @ Fri, 23 May 2008 12:40:29 +0000

briansnj — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:40:29 +0000

I have a weird problem Grant. Maybe you can help me.

Just today, I have 2 computers that are getting clobbered by VIBRANT. Each computer has GreaseMonkey and your script. They were working fine, no changes, or updates. Now, the ads appear.

However, on my laptop, everything is fine and the ads do not show!!

I tried clearing the all private data and cache, restarting the computer, etc. Uninstalled and reinstalled GM and script. No luck. WTF! lol

This is a head scratcher for me!

Archived Comments, replied by Grant Goodale @ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:46:16 +0000

Grant Goodale — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:46:16 +0000

Ah, thanks for the info. I'll roll that change into the next version.

Archived Comments, replied by Grant Goodale @ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:46:16 +0000

Grant Goodale — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:46:16 +0000

Ah, thanks for the info. I'll roll that change into the next version.

Archived Comments, replied by Descriptor @ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:23:15 +0000

Descriptor — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:23:15 +0000

I totally understand, I have some very critical things happening here, for now I can can provide you with some very helpful links that explain it well.
textContent is a DOM3 property
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-...
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_html.html#t07
just click the test page on that second link and you'll see.

Archived Comments, replied by Grant Goodale @ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:26:59 +0000

Grant Goodale — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:26:59 +0000

@Eric: Thanks. :)

@Descriptor: Sorry for the slow reply. I wasn't aware of the FF-only textContent function, honestly. I'd like to claim I don't use it because I'm desperately holding out for CreamMonkey/GreaseKit support in an upcoming version (which I am, by the way), but it just isn't true. Is there some advantage to textContent?

Archived Comments, replied by Eric Tom @ Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:42:24 +0000

Eric Tom — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:42:24 +0000

Keep up the good work! I absolutely forgot websites had text ads until i came across the bookmark to this website as i was reorganizing my bookmarks. It reminded me to update your awesome script. I appreciate this script so much!!!

Archived Comments, replied by Descriptor @ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:45:09 +0000

Descriptor — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:45:09 +0000

I was wondering why you don't use the textContent property. I think many script writers either don't know about it or don't want to remove BR tags. Since TextAd scripts replace text which should never have any BR tags, I can't imagine why it would ever be a problem here.

Archived Comments, replied by Descriptor @ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:26:10 +0000

Descriptor — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:26:10 +0000

Thanks Grant, I'll certainly check it out.

I wasn't upset because you didn't reply, I was frustrated because I couldn't get any definite answer as to whether DOMNodeInsertedIntoDocument fires or when it fires. I know what the W3C says but Mozilla says nothing.

Your comment led me to a different solution.

That doesn't indicate if you even considered my suggestions at all, and you left DOMNodeInsertedIntoDocument in while nobody at all complained that it didn't work, (for a week from Feb 21 there are no comments between mine and yours).

I'm glad you cleared that all up. And you explained the situation nicely. Perhaps I just lost patience too soon.

I forgot about that issue with iterators, but I wasn't really looking at that part yet - I was looking at what I noticed wasn't working. You can certainly just use ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE and create a loop getting each snapshotItem()

Your EchoTopic code works fine, I just noticed that you could do it in one line.

The code I posted using document.createTextNode mostly saves you the trouble of trying to figure out which node the text is in. Seems more strait-forward to me.

I discovered Greasemonkey because of this script, and I can't remember the trouble I had to go through to find greasemonkey-mod which works in SeaMonkey.
I stayed here and became a member to offer some support. If anyone doesn't want my help then I just leave, I could care less what any users think, especially those that continue to support sites which insist on flooding their screen with ads they don't want.