Text Adventures
You see an article or a twitter toot or whatever. > read the thing You see a link that looks interesting. > click the link You just made be Mike Arrington some cash. > undo I'm sorry, I don't understand "undo" > damnit Swearing won't help.
Enough of that
No thanks, right? I mean it's all well and good to just close the tab, of course, when you go to a site you don't want to work for, but the ads have already loaded. That's revenue. Gross.
The web isn't a passive medium. These links can be fixed go to better sites. The web isn't a passive medium.
So I made this greasemonkey script to zap all links to all the sites I don't want to work for. Zap them dead. If it's too late—say a shortened url tricked me—I'd rather see a goat scream like man than see what a mistake I just made, so it does that too. You can edit it to do something less drastic of course, but where's the fun in that?
Also dude—javascript-massaging the HTML DOM is so relatively simple and easy that an idiot like me can do it. So should you. Look at this. You can do this. The web isn't a passive medium.- var url = location.href;
- // add all the domains here
- var natch = /(DOMAINS YOU WANT TO AVOID GO HERE)\.\w+\//;
- // Serious options
- // var ohShit = 'about:blank';
- var betterLink = '#';
- // Comedy options
- var ohShit = 'http://grantstavely.com/evil/';
- // var betterLink = ohShit;
- // if it's too late
- if (url.match(natch)) {
- window.location = ohShit;
- }
- // if it's not too late
- list = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
- for (i=0; i<list.length; i++) {
- if (list[i].href.match(natch)) {
- var scream = document.createElement('a');
- scream.setAttribute('href', betterLink);
- scream.innerHTML = list[i].innerHTML + "<sup>✌</sup>";
- list[i].parentNode.replaceChild(scream, list[i]);
- }
- }
Run that against the entire web and it turns nasty links into neuters, and adds ✌ to them so that it's obvious.
Well, I think it's fun.
