Userscripts.org

Hi everyone!

I have found the reason why this script has stopped working, it is because of a very minor change to the website. However, when finding the change, I found this written underneath in a HTML comment:

<!--# Dear Web Robot Author,
++++#
++++# We appreciate that you want to help the world by writing
++++# a program that clicks the button. But it is not that simple.
++++# If it were that simple then we'd do it. The money we raise
++++# for our causes comes from our sponsors who enjoy both
++++# helping the causes and the benefit of our visitors' consideration.
++++# It all comes down to conversion rates. A certain number
++++# of our visitors who see the sponsors will click the ad
++++# and then a certain number of those who click the ads will take other
++++# actions on the sponsor's sites. Robots hurt our conversion rates
++++# and make our clicks less valuable... We want to keep our
++++# sponsors' advertising dollars here where they help the causes.
++++# By writing bots that click the button you just make our
++++# sponsors consider other websites where the conversion rates
++++# might be better. If you want to help here are a couple ideas:
++++#
++++# 1. Tell people. Send an email, e-card, voice mail, postcard, smoke signals,... to people you know.
++++#
++++# 2. Link to our sites. The traffic we get from Google because of rank really makes a big difference!
++++#
++++# We do appreciate the thought and we certainly appreciate your support!
-->
 

I could quite easily publish a script update - however, I don't think if it's a good idea? Especially as they've asked so politely! What do you guys think?

@David O'Connor
Yeah, I have absolutely no problem at all with that - go right ahead! It'd be cool if you could post a link here of your program once you have made it though! :D

Thanks! Yeah, I think it would be fine to use it in a program, what sort of program were you thinking of?