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Disable Text Ads

Disables inline text ads from Vibrant Media (IntelliTXT), AdBrite, Infolicious (lingoSpot), Kontera, Linkworth, EchoTopic, Targetpoint (defunct?), MediaText (defunct), ResultLinks, Chitika and Infolinks.

  1. // ==UserScript==
  2. // @name          Disable Text Ads
  3. // @namespace     http://www.fibble.org/
  4. // @description	  Disables inline text ads from Vibrant Media (IntelliTXT), AdBrite, Infolicious (lingoSpot), Kontera, Linkworth, EchoTopic, Targetpoint (defunct?), MediaText (defunct), ResultLinks, Chitika and Infolinks.
  5. // @version 9.0
  6. // @include       http://*
  7. // ==/UserScript==
  8.  
  9. var disableTextAds = {
  10.  
  11.   blockAds: function(elt) {
  12.     var TARGET = elt;
  13.     var childNode;
  14.     
  15.     switch(elt.nodeName.toLowerCase()) {
  16.  
  17.       // EchoTopic and ResultLinks wrap their inserted links in a <nobr> tag.
  18.       case 'nobr':
  19.       if (elt.firstChild.getAttribute('class') == "tfTextLink") { //EchoTopic
  20.         childNode = elt.firstChild.firstChild;
  21.       } else if (elt.firstChild.hasAttribute('id') && elt.firstChild.getAttribute('id').search(/RLLINK/) >= 0) { //ResultLinks
  22.         childNode = elt.firstChild.firstChild;        
  23.       }
  24.       
  25.       break;
  26.       
  27.  
  28.       // AdBrite CHECK
  29.       case 'ispan':
  30.       if (elt.hasAttribute('id')) {
  31.         if (match = elt.getAttribute('id').match(/AdBriteInlineAd_(.*)/i)) {
  32.           childNode = document.createTextNode(match[1]);
  33.         }
  34.       }
  35.       break;
  36.       
  37.       // Chitika
  38.       case 'span':
  39.       if (elt.firstChild.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'a') {
  40.         if (elt.getAttribute('class') != null && elt.getAttribute('class').search(/lx-link/) >= 0) {
  41.           childNode = elt.firstChild.firstChild;
  42.           break;          
  43.         }
  44.       }
  45.  
  46.       // The rest of the networks
  47.       case 'a':
  48.  
  49.       var a_class = elt.getAttribute('class');
  50.  
  51.       switch(a_class) {
  52.         // Infolinks
  53.         case 'IL_LINK_STYLE':
  54.           childNode = elt.firstChild;
  55.           break;
  56.  
  57.         // Kontera
  58.         case 'kLink':
  59.           childNode = disableTextAds.findKonteraText(elt);
  60.           break;        
  61.       }
  62.       
  63.       // IntelliTXT
  64.       if (elt.hasAttribute('itxtdid')) {
  65.         childNode = elt.firstChild;
  66.         break;
  67.       }
  68.  
  69.       // Mediatext
  70.       if (elt.hasAttribute('c4fadvertpos')) {
  71.         childNode = elt.firstChild;
  72.         break;
  73.       }
  74.  
  75.       // Targetpoint CHECK
  76.       if (elt.hasAttribute('tpi')) {
  77.         childNode = elt.firstChild;
  78.         break;
  79.       }			
  80.  
  81.  
  82.  
  83.       // Old AdBrite check - not sure if this is still relevant
  84.       if (elt.hasAttribute('id')) {
  85.         if (match = elt.getAttribute('id'). MATCH(/AdBriteInlineAd_(.*)/i)) {
  86.           childNode = document.createTextNode(match[1]);
  87.         }
  88.         break;
  89.       }
  90.  
  91.       // Can't be too cautious.
  92.       break;
  93.       } // case
  94.  
  95.  
  96.       // Grab the inner text and replace the inserted tag with it
  97.       if (childNode) {
  98.         target.parentNode.replaceChild(childNode, target);
  99.       }
  100.     },
  101.  
  102.     findKonteraText: function(elt) {
  103.       // kontera triply-nests the original content: 
  104.       // <a><font><span>text</span><span>here</span></font></a>
  105.  
  106.       var kTextNodes = document.evaluate("font/span[@class='kLink']/text()", elt, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null);
  107.       var kTextNode = kTextNodes.iterateNext();
  108.       var content = '';
  109.       while(kTextNode) {
  110.         content += kTextNode.data + ' ';
  111.         kTextNode = kTextNodes.iterateNext();
  112.       }
  113.  
  114.       return document.createTextNode(content.substring(0,content.length-1));
  115.     }
  116.   };
  117.  
  118.   document.addEventListener('DOMNodeInserted', function(event) { disableTextAds.blockAds(event.target); }, true);
  119.  
  120.   // Handle the cases that don't trigger our DOMNodeInserted hook.
  121.  WINDOW.addEventListener("load", function(event) { 
  122.  
  123.     // According to LingoSpot, setting this global variable will DISABLE all ads.  Doesn't actually see to have any effect.
  124.     unsafeWindow.LINGOSPOT_DISABLED = true;
  125.  
  126.     // THANKS to Descriptor for yet another way to block LingoSpot; doesn't on every page, unfortunately.
  127.     // Still, it should reduce runtime for pages where it works.
  128.     unsafeWindow.tf_maxKeywords = 0;
  129.  
  130.     // Unfortunately, Linkworth has decided to remove their container div, so we're stuck crawling the entire document body.  Meh.
  131.     var links = document.evaluate("//a[@class='lw_cad_link' or @itxtdid]", document.body, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
  132.     for (var i=0; i<links.snapshotLength; i++) { 
  133.       var anchor = links.snapshotItem(i);
  134.       anchor.parentNode.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(anchor.textContent), anchor);
  135.     }
  136.   }, false);