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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.

I take it this doesn't apply to the considerate artists whose music a) actually has a reason to be there and b) is not set to play automatically?

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

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.

Preach it!

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.

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

Obviousman wrote:Nice

Err, only thingy: Whereabout in FF should I look to set this?

You need the AdBlock extension (from here

Obviousman 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

There might be an extension that does that, I'm not sure

Alternatively just block MySpace.com entirely.

Dark wrote:Alternatively just block MySpace.com entirely.

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.

And so should you.

Now it works, thanks Laz

I don't MySpace anyway, so I'm free and Mac