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I really wish you could tell your browser to disallow this kind of modification. I only want to copy what i see with my eyes. (WYSISYG)
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Yeah I was looking up some very straightforward things and I'd end up with non-English wiki pages on the first page, and the English wiki page for the same topic was... I guess maybe on later pages.
Are you using a VPN? I've never seen a foreign language wiki article show up, and I've been using DDG for a couple of years.
Strongly agree with the original article, and it's fun to see all the niche use cases that people are mentioning here. But I have a major frustration with user scripts: writing them requires experience with Javascript and reverse engineering websites. This is fine for the HN crowd, but locks out most web users, who can't program at all. I bet that if it were slightly easier to develop user scripts, there'd be 10x as…
Would be nice if every website had a scraper. People maintain huge content blocking databases so why not scraping code? It should be possible to treat every website like an API.
Every now and then I wish I still had something like that, but the team has long since moved on and it's bit-rotted a bit.
More recently, I've found that a lot of recipe web sites have been embedding the recipe as json-ld data (I presume to appease Google), so I've written a grease-monkey script to collect those as I browse and post to a personal couchdb instance. I haven't gotten around to putting a UI on that or further processing the data yet (e.g. I need some agents to fetch images or pull them from browser cache), too many irons in the fire, but maybe someday.
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Firefox supports this, go into Settings -> Search and set a keyword for the search engine. For example, if you set the keyword for DuckDuckGo to "ddg" and Google to "go", then typing "ddg " into the topbar will search DuckDuckGo, and typing "go " will search Google.
You can set a keyword for any bookmark. Firefox replaces %s with your query. Simply bookmark the search result page of any website, replace the query with %s and set the keyword for the bookmark. Doesn't have to be search either. For instance, I use it for the nodejs docs, and npm packages too: " https://nodejs.org/api/%s.html" and " https://www.npmjs.com/package/%s" . So I can type "node fs" open the fs docs for nod…
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I've set Firefox its default search engine to DDG. Then if the search results are unsatisfying, I search again but now prepend the search with !g for Google, or !gi for Google Images.
Fwiw, you don't need to prepend it; you can put it anywhere in the query
What's the security story for userscripts?
Feels way safer than installing an add-on from the store, but of course just for me as a programmer.
Highlight new comment on HN https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/18066-hn-comment-trees For reddit: https://github.com/Farow/userscripts/blob/master/reddit-high... Gmail android creator had a unified one for HN+reddit that syncs across sessions, but it lacks features and haven't been updates in years: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-comments/jldpf... My most used bookmarklets increments playback speed for…
(chrome one is in the store)
It marks comments or posts as "read" (or "seen") for a whole page and than hides them. And you can tell it not to hide posts where you "subscribed" to the comments.
I can never go back, so tired of skimming over the same top posts all day again and again.
I think it also does tree comments.
If somebody could tell me how to use user scripts and user CSS on Brave mobile, I'd be a happy person.
If somebody could tell me how to use user scripts and user CSS on Brave mobile, I'd be a happy person.
Contrary to the suggested browser Kiwi which is discontinued I'd suggest Yandex browser in android which supports extensions.
Tampermonkey, ViolentMonkey and GreaseMonkey are all available in Firefox. Can anyone provide a comparison? Edit for the early commenters: as I stated, all of the above are available on current Firefox. Greasemonkey also has been ported to webextensions. Hence my question. Edit 2: TamperMonkey is closed source source and apparently embeds Google Analytics. Either of those immediately kill it for me, considering the k…
Greasemonkey 4, released in 2017, introduced a new asynchronous API `GM.…` (e.g. `GM.getValue`), and dropped support for the equivalent synchronous `GM_…` functions: https://www.greasespot.net/2017/09/greasemonkey-4-for-script.... There also used to be some functions such as `GM_registerMenuCommand` that Greasemonkey 4 provided no equivalent to. However, it looks like Greasemonkey’s polyfill (https://github.com/greasemonkey/gm4-polyfill) has expanded its support for the old `GM_…` functions since I last checked, so maybe migrating old scripts I use to Greasemonkey 4’s new API won’t be as difficult and limiting as the last time I considered it. I probably won’t bother unless I have a reason to switch away from Violentmonkey, though.
The user script I use that still uses the old APIs is Webcomic Reader, if you’re wondering. It preloads previous and next comics to speed up browsing, and restyles sites to show hidden per-comic bonuses like title text. It’s at https://github.com/anka-213/webcomic_reader, and its issue about potential Greasemonkey migration is at https://github.com/anka-213/webcomic_reader/issues/130.