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Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant

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Re: Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant

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Post by roryokane »

aasasd wrote: post #22
the_duke wrote: post #2

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…

As you noted, TM is closed-source. However, GM is very sparsely developed after the switch to webextensions—still no script management interface, as far as I can see. TM whips it in terms of features. VM appeared recently in the FF land, and my guess is, it's for those who hope for faster development—however dunno if those hopes are realized, feature-wise.

> dunno if those hopes are realized, feature-wise

Violentmonkey has all the features I need. I don’t know what features Tampermonkey has, but I can’t think of much more I could ask for in Violentmonkey. VM has:

• A dashboard page where you can remove, disable, or update user scripts.

• A CodeMirror editor with syntax highlighting for editing installed scripts.

• A ‘+’ button to create a new script for the current site.

• Support for scripts that use the GM_… functions like `GM_setValue` and `GM_registerMenuCommand`.

• Site-specific actions in the extension menu: enable or disable scripts for this site, run those scripts’ menu commands, or search Greasy Fork for published scripts that apply to this site.

Re: Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant

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Post by rkagerer »

Veedrac wrote: post #35
malwarebytess wrote: post #33

Given the increasingly hostile nature of websites, along with the tendency to remove user control, userscripts are not just still relevant but more relevant than ever. Here's some that I like: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/10096-general-url-cleaner https://greasyfork.org/fr/scripts/19210-google-direct-links-... https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium

> https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/10096-general-url-cleaner Redirecting away from smile.amazon.com leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Reading how many popular websites embed tracking in URL's leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I've been cleaning them by hand up 'till now.

Re: Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant

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Post by arantius »

aboodman wrote: post #6
the_duke wrote: post #2

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…

Here's a short relevant Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9uemks/greasemonke... Though I wrote Greasemonkey originally, I have no idea regarding the answer to this question. What I can say is that Anthony Lieuallen is a super standup guy, which is why I handed it over to him and Johan way back. Based on that alone, I personally continue to use GM whenever I have a need.

Thanks Aaron!

GreaseMonkey is still pure open source, MIT licensed. For a while we had some general telemetry built in, but that was back in the 3.x days, so not for over two years now.

Re: Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant

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Post by user00012-ab »

Waterluvian wrote: post #65
Ileca wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why use a userscript when you can use a search engine that is not from a spyware company? Like Startpage, Qwant, Duckduckgo or Searx? Alleluia, direct links out of the box. For youtube, why not give Invidious a try (ok, it has its downs)? Sometimes, the best solution to "hostile websites" is to not use them in the first place (or use their proxified versions).

I wanted to love DDG. It promises a lot. And it delivers a lot. I love the shortcut codes. But after a few months I had to go back to Google. Two main reasons: 1. Image searches could often return literally zero results for simple terms. 2. I'd look up a term and get non-English Wikipedia articles before the English ones, which often wouldn't even show up.

A killer feature on Hackernews would be the ability to just point to a common thread like wiki that people could update; so we don't have to scroll through the comments on how people love DDG, but it just doesn't have good results. So instead of every post having a huge comment section on this restating the entire thing over and over and over, we could just link to the wiki that has the discussion on duck duck go.

Re: Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant

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Post by afefers »

DonCopal wrote: post #101

This is how Hacker News looks like with my script: https://i.imgur.com/We97pJC.png Numbers on the left (11, 12, 13) are shortcuts to open a thread (for example, pressing 14 opens the "Userscripts are fun..." thread). Numbers after that (e.g. 65,20) are karma and number of comments, respectively. Much more compact than the default layout and shows better which topics are hot.

Is it available somewhere? I really liked it!
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