Universal Adblock and Website Modification Tool
Not only removes all web site elements you would like to get rid of, but also gives you the power to set unlimited styles on a website of your choice via XML! Will be expanded to your personal website skinning platform... What do you think of that?
This is more than just an ordinary ad blocker. You can even use it to apply a completely different skin to a website of your choice...
Description
If your web site is not already included, you just need to add the respective elements to the config XML, which is by default located on my web server:
You can replace it with your own file, hosted on your own web space and just change the server URL and filename in the userscript, or - and I would appreciate this - post new sites and elements (also "excluded" elements) right here.Specified elements will be removed completely from the DOM, once a website is loaded (and thus save memory;). Certainly this means that also the space which the removed ads usually occupy within the website is freed.
This is a styler, too!
If after removal the website layout is messed up, you can easily define style in the XML (as done for leo.org and google search results in my default XML config file). Naturally you can add as much global or inline style definitions as you want - on any website and independently from element removal
You can find a documentation in the standard config file (linked above). If you have any questions, just ask!
You can also send me an eMail if you have a bunch of additions (see script source)!
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Currently supported domains include...
- http://www.google.de/search?q=universal+adblock
- www.kicker.de
- www.spiegel.de
- www.studivz.net
- www.heise.de
- www.leo.org
- www.wikipedia.org
- more 2 come
And much more using "universal" element definitions!
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Thanks! I think the XML method is not the worst, since I also implemented a caching functionality. As I mentioned above, I am going to implement a server-side php/mysql solution which should generate the data on demand and absolutely dynamic. Will need some time to do this, but stay in touch...
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Cool! Personal I don't like the idea of fetching the xml definition file over the web. But this could be avoided with the upcoming GM 0.8.* (@resource).
If the performance stays smooth, I'll give it a shot.
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If you do not have the chance to host your own XML definitions or have no clue of how to find elements on a site to be removed, please at least post the site's URL you wish to be added. I really encourage you to participate, otherwise the power of the script will never be exploited. Thank you.
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You can try to achieve this with my script, but I would absolutely recommend to use Gmail and Google Apps Sidebar Remover for that purpose, because this does more than just removing the sidebar!
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and using the full window width in gmail?
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Hello, nice script.
how can i remove the adds of gmail (in the new version) with your script?