Comments | isiscolo: useful stuffs

isiscolo

useful stuffs

Feb 01, 2007 16:54

A few collected pointers to things you may find enhance your lj, fandom, and general computer-related experience. Some of these are applicable only to users of particular programs or operating systems.

Firefox

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior. Most ( Read more... )

lj, interesting pointers

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florahart February 2 2007, 00:07:20 UTC

It is worth noting that the LJ TOS (XII and XVI, 17) says you aren't to "obscure" ads or "Employ tactics to prevent the full and complete display of advertisements"--it doesn't say specifically that this is in relation to Plus account stuff, but I don't know what else it really would be in reference to. I think I think that blocking them is the same as obscuring them ( ... )

isiscolo February 2 2007, 00:15:56 UTC

My totally knee-jerk reaction is that LJ had promised us that they wouldn't put ads on the site - and so in some way they violated our understood TOS. But actually, I had no idea this was specifically in their TOS, since I have a paid account and don't see ads anyway. I'll link down to your comment, anyway.

cmshaw February 2 2007, 04:16:11 UTC

i would think that that relates more to the plus users not being allowed to cover up the ads in their own journals, ie by hacking some journal style which hides the ad area from viewing.

snakeling February 2 2007, 11:13:35 UTC

Actually, they can't tell whether you're using an ad-blocker or not, and they don't really care (though they'd prefer if people didn't share tips on news post :P). What you aren't to do, though, is block the ads on your Plus LJ using CSS or whatever, so that they're blocked for everyone.

aurora_84 February 2 2007, 00:11:16 UTC

This is so going in my memories, thank you!

the_antichris February 2 2007, 00:24:04 UTC

I was just last night wishing I had a button for style=mine! There's a Greasemonkey script that appends it to everything, but I like seeing styles when they're readable. \o/

amothea February 2 2007, 00:32:15 UTC

thanks for posting these. :) I didn't know about the word count. :)

isiscolo February 2 2007, 03:14:26 UTC

I just found out about it today!

revbiscuit February 2 2007, 00:38:12 UTC

Curious stuff. Aw, the killfile. Reminds me of when I used to read uk.people.gothic, such a useful tool. I'd forgotten all about it.

isiscolo February 2 2007, 01:14:24 UTC

Yeah, Usenet is where I know killfiles from as well. Back in the days before it was overrun with spam...