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

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

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/

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

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.

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!!!

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...

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...

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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!

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.

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!!!

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.

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.

Thanks for the great update Grant. Life would be unbearable without my Grease Monkey and your script.

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Glad to see you are gone. Grant has always been reliable and kind. If you come here without patience, make demands and basically act like an A$$#ol3, then good riddance. We all celebrate your departure.

Thanks, Grant!

I am very relieved to see the this update. These ads are spreading fast and they're really annoying. A forum I read uses a "free" host that just added text ads. So every post on the forum has random double-underlined links sprinkled through it!

Total eyeball abuse.