Any FireFox script that will do this?

[Viper GTS]

One of the local news sites requires registration to view stories. It will work for a few clicks & then it starts taking you to the signup page instead of the stories. If you remove the first half of the link you can get to the proper destination fine.

Now I obviously could just register, but screw that there has to be a way around this.

I've had terrible luck searching for this, maybe someone has seen a script that will:

1) Identify when a destination URL contains a string on a blacklist
2) Remove that string and send you to whatever is left

An example link:

http://www.kgw.com/sharedconte...et_thief.1595727f.html

The part I would want to remove is:

http://www.kgw.com/sharedconte...embership/join.jsp?fw=

Any ideas on an easy way to do this?

Viper GTS

 

[Fardringle]

Why not just register? It takes less than a minute and you won't have to spend hours (or days/weeks) searching for a way around it...

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Fardringle
Why not just register? It takes less than a minute and you won't have to spend hours (or days/weeks) searching for a way around it...

Shush with your logic. 😛 This is more fun.

Besides, that is EXACTLY the response they're hoping I will have. Right now I would rather manually delete it from each link than support that crap.

Viper GTS

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Fardringle
Why not just register? It takes less than a minute and you won't have to spend hours (or days/weeks) searching for a way around it...

Shush with your logic. 😛 This is more fun.

Besides, that is EXACTLY the response they're hoping I will have. Right now I would rather manually delete it from each link than support that crap.

Viper GTS

:thumbsup:

I would like to know the same thing because I have that problem on my news website as well.

 

[MrScott81]

This should help:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5064

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Fardringle
Why not just register? It takes less than a minute and you won't have to spend hours (or days/weeks) searching for a way around it...

Shush with your logic. 😛 This is more fun.

Besides, that is EXACTLY the response they're hoping I will have. Right now I would rather manually delete it from each link than support that crap.

Viper GTS

:thumbsup:

I would like to know the same thing because I have that problem on my news website as well.

:thumbsup:

Registering to read news sites has always been a terrible idea/practice.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: MrScott81
This should help:

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5064">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5064</a>

Thanks.

 

[Viper GTS]

Works perfectly. 🙂 I wish it could intercept before it loads the registration page but this is much more tolerable than doing it by hand & I can apply it to other sites as needed.

Viper GTS

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Works perfectly. 🙂 I wish it could intercept before it loads the registration page but this is much more tolerable than doing it by hand & I can apply it to other sites as needed.

Viper GTS

I wish this as well. Seems like as the more firefox extension I add the slower firefox gets 🙁

 

[nace186]

you could just install adblock and block the javascript that check for for page view count...

I done this before on certain newspaper site. They have a specific javascript file that check my cookie, so I blocked it, and it never ask me again.

another alternative: In firefox, you could specify whether you want to accept cookie from a specific site. I think if you set it not to accept cookie from the news site, then they can't check how many time you view.