Vlajbert's Greasemonkey Scripts

Greasemonkey - CNN Ads

2008-07-17T22:47:00.000-07:00

Ok, this isn't GM scripting, it's ad host hunting. If you want to block CNN and Fox News ads put this into your hosts file. Those are zeros BTW.

0.0.0.0 ad.doubleclick.net ads.cnn.com

Now this isn't visually pleasing because it blocks all ads and the page will look outa whack but it works.

Warning: this resolves those hosts to your computer so if your running a web server on your computer it's gona see the traffic. Hmm, you could configure your server to always respond with a blank page for requests from those hosts/domains.

Greasemonkey - Fox News Ads

2008-07-17T22:26:00.000-07:00

Heh, I decided to get back into some GM scripts starting with the Fox video player. After doing some snooping I realized GM may not be able to do it since it's not a combination flash/JS but completely implemented in flash. So snooping a little traffic I decided to get ad.doubleclick.net out of the way so added a host entry for ad.doubleclick.net to resolve to 0.0.0.0 and low-and-behold the ads are gone. That was easy! :)

Greasemonkey - Live 365 tweaks

2007-07-07T14:21:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I've been using live365 for a while now. By default their player will send a 'silent' stream if you close the player. While on XP, I'm now using Ubuntu, my browser popup blocker would block the onbeforeunload and onunload events so when I closed the player the stream would continue to play. The popup blocker I use for Ubuntu doesn't block the onbeforeunload and onunload so I wrote a GM script to allow you to close the player window and keep the stream playing. Oh, I intergrated the house ad blocker so you don't get nagged to create an account after every 5th stream.

live365tweaks.user.js

Bug Report

2006-12-17T13:19:00.000-08:00

Use this posting to report bugs with my scripts.

Please supply:
1) Script name
2) Problem
3) Failing url

Greasemonkey -- SoFeminine RingTone Linker

2006-12-16T14:11:00.000-08:00

Ok, it's been a while. There are two bugs pending in current scripts. I'll get those fixed.

Here's a new one. I like the ring tones from SoFeminine but I hate the flash player to listen to them. I've created a script to tweak the anchors to link directly to the mp3.

sofeminineringtonelinker.user.js

I'm sad, this guys doesn't like me

2006-09-14T20:12:00.000-07:00

This guy lists a bunch of 'bad' GM scripts, 8 of them are mine woohoo!!! I added a comment but it's been waiting moderation since Aug 21.

Webmasters, Could Firefox Be Bad For Your Health?

Update -- WashingtonPost Auto-Login

2006-08-29T21:50:00.000-07:00

The Washington Post Auto-Login script has been fixed.

washingtonpostautologin.user.js

Greasemonkey -- Break.com

2006-04-10T21:01:00.000-07:00

Ok, I'm going to try and get back to GM. This script will remove the ads between the videos and play the videos directly in the player.

breakcomfriendlyvideo.user.js

Update -- CNN Friendly Video

2005-11-21T19:58:00.000-08:00

Updated the script so you can use the old or new method. The old method will replace all anchors with a link directly to the stream. The new method uses CNN's video player but bypasses ads.

cnnfriendlyvideo.user.js

Update -- FoxNews Friendly Video

2005-11-20T21:23:00.000-08:00

Found a timing issue with bypassing the video and a better way to bypass video.

foxnewsfriendlyvideo.user.js

Update -- NYPost Ad Remover

2005-11-20T08:25:00.000-08:00

Added code so you don't have to login and cleaned up the left nav.

nypostadremover.user.js

Update -- WSJ Ad Remover

2005-11-14T10:08:00.000-08:00

Ok, its been a while and I'm going to try and get caught up. I fixed the ad remover so the whole page doesn't get nuked. :)

wsjadremover.user.js

Update -- CNN Friendly Video

2005-08-13T18:34:00.000-07:00

Found a better and less error prone way to handle ads.

cnnfriendlyvideo.user.js

Update -- AtomFilms Friendly Video

2005-08-11T13:28:00.000-07:00

I just upload a new version that runs a little better and catches some odd pathed videos.

atomfilmsfriendlyvideo.user.js

The Salon Battle

2005-08-07T08:52:00.000-07:00

The never ending battle with the Salon script continues. In the process of looking into why the script doesn't work with Opera, which I've figured out and will try a fix and enter a bug report with Opera, I found out the FF script was also failing. Turns out that ad code from judo.salon.com is preventing the GM script from running. I'm looking into this now. A quick fix is to resolve judo.salon.com to 127.0.0.1 in the host file on your PC.

Greasemonkey -- WashingtonPost Auto-Login

2005-08-04T20:22:00.000-07:00

Yeaaa, finally a new script. If you end up at the WashingtonPost.com login/register page this script will automagically fill in and post the register form for you.

washingtonpostautologin.user.js

Update -- Salon.com

2005-08-04T10:34:00.000-07:00

Added a hook for the /src/pass/gateway/ interstitial.

salonpremiumpass.user.js

Update -- Salon.com

2005-07-26T11:12:00.000-07:00

Ok, I refuse to give up. Here is another version.

salonpremiumpass.user.js

Update -- Salon.com

2005-07-24T21:59:00.000-07:00

Ok, Salon is playing with cookies/JS? That's just my guess. I rewrote the Salon Premium Pass so instead of spoofing cookies I follow their click path.

salonpremiumpass.user.js

Update -- FoxNews.com Friendly Video

2005-07-22T22:41:00.000-07:00

Ok, this was fun to figure out. FoxNews.com has gone to flash video so I had to figure out how to interact with flash from JS.

foxnewsfriendlyvideo.user.js

Salon Premium Pass update

2005-07-22T19:47:00.000-07:00

I updated the Salon Premimum Pass user script. There is a case where their JS will mark your cookie bad. I test for the bad cookie and reset it.

salonpremiumpass.user.js

Greasemonkey -- Salon.com Ad Remover

2005-07-22T19:44:00.000-07:00

Removes the story body inline ad.

salonadremover.user.js

2005-07-21T13:49:00.000-07:00

The Salon script has been update to reflect the change in their Javascript. It's working now.

I've missed a couple of days!

2005-06-29T12:59:00.000-07:00

Ok, here's my escuse. I'm trying to get video from MSNBC and AOL's new "portal" working.

Greasemonkey -- NYPost.com Ads

2005-06-23T10:15:00.000-07:00

Ok, today we're going to remove the inline story ad.

nypostadremover.user.js

Greasemonkey -- WSJ.com

2005-06-22T13:10:00.000-07:00

This removes the big flash ad just above the portfolio stuff. Note, this is only useful for people who subscribe to the WSJ.

wsjadremover.user.js

Greasemonkey -- PopCap.com

2005-06-21T09:34:00.000-07:00

This will remove the ad just before the game your playing.

popcapadremover.user.js

Greasemonkey -- CNN.com Video

2005-06-20T13:25:00.000-07:00

This is similar to the FoxNews Friendly Video script. It replaces the href for the video anchor with a link directly to the wmv file.

cnnfriendlyvideo.user.js

Greasemonkey -- FoxNews.com Ads

2005-06-17T07:00:00.000-07:00

Today's script will remove the top two banner ads, the right side box ad and the story inline ad.

foxnewsadremover.user.js

Greasemonkey -- AtomFilms.com

2005-06-16T07:06:00.000-07:00

Remove video ads from atom films.

atomfilmsfriendlyvideo.user.js

Greasemonkey -- Experts Exchange

2005-06-15T07:56:00.000-07:00

Todays script will remove the inline ads from Experts-Exchange.com.

expertsexchangeadremover.user.js

Greasemonkey -- FoxNews.com Video

2005-06-13T15:51:00.000-07:00

Ok, today's script will rewrite all of the video anchors for FoxNews.com so they refer directly to the video file instead of a popup with a bunch of ads.

foxnewsfriendlyvideo.user.js

Greasemonkey -- Salon.com

2005-06-12T20:42:00.000-07:00

Ok, putting the scripts right into the blog isn't gona work. So here is my first script. This script will allow you to view the Salon.com site without having to watch the Premium Video.

salonpremiumpass.user.js