I think it went nuclear back when Microsoft pulled out of it's SmartTags program...
just my 0.2

Yes, I hadn't realized until now what can be done with greasemonkey. Or maybe more specifically, how easily things can be done with greasemonkey. Knowing of the powerful things that can be done, I really do think it could get nuclear.

Just released my first AJAX-enabled extensions called LinkChecker that hunts down all the links on a page then does some work to figure out whether they're bad or not. In this case, the only modifications it's making to the page are background colors it slips behind the links.

AJAX is an interesting issue and I can't wait to see where it all goes.

Cheers! ~ Kevin

Finally, I can enforce the Social Contract I agreed to when the Internet became available -- that I will not buy anything from anyone who forces me to look at their advertising more than once. That was generous, it was an opt-out model, requiring me to be annoyed once by each advertiser on the Net, which I forgave because I could stop seeing them.

While I was using Lynx, all I needed was a killfile -- simple enough.

Then things got nasty. Now they're getting better again.

As long as someone makes good products, I can find them when I want them. So long as the Social Contract works, I'm not bothered by seeing them, and I can find them.

If they make good products and force me to look at ads, we both lose.
If they make crap and force me to look at ads, we both lose.
If nobody likes and recommends their products, I'll never find them.

Works for me. I'm not really impressed with the graphical Internet -- Lynx on a phone modem was faster than anyting graphical on a DSL line, the measure being that I read as fast as the information reaches my screen, without interrupting the flow.

It's great to have a social contract that actually works.

Too bad most of the businesses crapping in the web aren't old enough to remember it, but, hey, they opened the shrinkwrap on the Net, they bought in to the deal, eh?