Firefox users might like to know about the wonderful discovery I've just made.
If you've got the adblock extension, add the URL "http://lads.myspace.com/music/" to blocked elements - it blocks every single f**king crappy music file on MySpace users' page - all those s**t emo songs are filtered out.
Oh, yes!
And to those MySpace users, a word from yours truly (a professional web developer since some time in the 1990s) - the FIRST thing I ever learnt was that background music on a web page was a s**t idea.
MySpace, Firefox and bastard music files
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arghh - some songs still get through
the filter obviously needs to be more comprehensive - I'll work on it and post the results here
@Motz - no, it's a slight (and indiscriminate) case of overbombing. But that was always bound to be the result when MySpace introduced auto-play music files.
EDIT: filtering the entire subdomain http://lads.myspace.com seems to do the trick
the filter obviously needs to be more comprehensive - I'll work on it and post the results here
@Motz - no, it's a slight (and indiscriminate) case of overbombing. But that was always bound to be the result when MySpace introduced auto-play music files.
EDIT: filtering the entire subdomain http://lads.myspace.com seems to do the trick
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Preach it!lazarus corporation wrote:Firefox users might like to know about the wonderful discovery I've just made.
If you've got the adblock extension, add the URL "http://lads.myspace.com/music/" to blocked elements - it blocks every single f**king crappy music file on MySpace users' page - all those s**t emo songs are filtered out.
Oh, yes!
And to those MySpace users, a word from yours truly (a professional web developer since some time in the 1990s) - the FIRST thing I ever learnt was that background music on a web page was a s**t idea.
Other problems with the majority of myspace users’ designs: text that is basically the same colour as the bgcolour; annoying background images that make it impossible to read the text without turning them off; and loads of large pictures that make browsers load slowly.
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Nice
Err, only thingy: Whereabout in FF should I look to set this?
Owh, and something I was wondering: Is there a plug-in that acts like a pop-up blocker, but is somewhat broader than the built in one? I'd like to accept pop-ups every now and then from sites without setting the sites as 'always allow pop-ups'
Sorry for these rather dumb questions
Err, only thingy: Whereabout in FF should I look to set this?
Owh, and something I was wondering: Is there a plug-in that acts like a pop-up blocker, but is somewhat broader than the built in one? I'd like to accept pop-ups every now and then from sites without setting the sites as 'always allow pop-ups'
Sorry for these rather dumb questions
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You need the AdBlock extension (from hereObviousman wrote:Nice
Err, only thingy: Whereabout in FF should I look to set this?
There might be an extension that does that, I'm not sureObviousman wrote:Owh, and something I was wondering: Is there a plug-in that acts like a pop-up blocker, but is somewhat broader than the built in one? I'd like to accept pop-ups every now and then from sites without setting the sites as 'always allow pop-ups'
Sorry for these rather dumb questions
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That's always an option, but I stick to the practice that it's my internet (I'm downloading it onto my computer, afterall) and if I want to look at a page without downloading the music, then I can and I will.Dark wrote:Alternatively just block MySpace.com entirely.
And so should you.
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Now it works, thanks Laz
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