About.com Ad Free

Last update on Dec 21, 2005

Remove ads from about.com, and make outgoing links direct.

This is my first greasemonkey script. It uses CSS and DOM to remove ads on about.com pages. It also changes outgoing links to be direct rather than through redirect, because about uses this method to add ads to external links.

Updated to remove sidebar ads and a couple other junk items from the pages (see comment below). Thanks to all who have rated and commented the script.




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fantimond user
Posted Nov 22, 2007

It is really cool, thank you. Hope that when about.com change their ad scheme, you'll follow the update too. Again, thank you, mate.

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Posted Feb 22, 2007

Works really well. About.com's ads usually send me running for the hills.

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Matthew Flas... scriptwright
Posted Jan 13, 2007

Excellent work. I removed the real ad-removal code (since I use Ad-block Plus), but the link rewriter is great.

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Poet scriptwright
Posted Feb 26, 2006

You can't use this on myspace.... it's site-specific for about.com

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catherine user
Posted Feb 26, 2006

Im trying to use this for my myspace and i cant seem to use it? any help? like a code?

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Paul 1 script's author
Posted Feb 20, 2006

The script has been updated to remove text ads from the left column. It also now removes the newsletter sign-up box, and the fourth column which is not really advertising, but is ugly and irrelivent to the page.

Also, the CSS changes are applied more efficiently (using one AddGlobalStyle rather than one for each line of CSS).

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Asu Hot user
Posted Jan 25, 2006

It really works nicely. Wonderful script.

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Cole user
Posted Jan 5, 2006

Wow . . . works amazingly well (in 1.5); about looks like a legitimate website afterwards. You'd never know there's that much content on an about.com page.

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