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March 31, 2005

Interstitial Buster 0.1

While reading my favourite online comics, I've noticed that those sites have been using interstitial advertisements (comic page redirects to ad page, which after 10 secs or you clicking on a link takes you to the page you wanted to get to originally).

So I whipped up a quick extension (Firefox only atm, my seamonkey trees were building) called Interstitial Buster, which can be gotten here. It currently only busts ads from midaddle.com, which is used on Dilbert and Foxtrot. It adds a statusbar item (iB) which has no use at the moment.

Posted by doron at March 31, 2005 1:04 PM

Comments

Can you make it work on things like IGN? That would be nice. I think there are other gaming sites that do similar things, but I can only think of IGN. Oh, yahoo groups does it too, but who cares about that?

Otherwise, thanks for this, I've given up reading Dilbert & Foxtrot due to missing way too many of them (maybe someday I get an archive?) and I'm sure this extension should advance nicely. It's the perfect companion to Adblock.

Posted by: Tom at March 31, 2005 1:48 PM

I was just about to come here to say the same thing as Tom - having this work on IGN would be great - those ads are darned annoying. I still get my Dilbert through RSS, so the ads aren't affecting me right now.

Posted by: Steve Eyre at March 31, 2005 2:38 PM

For thos requesting IGN ad-skipping, if you have greasemonkey (http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org) installed you can just go here:

http://docs.g-blog.net/code/greasemonkey/adskipper_ign_com.user.js

Posted by: Pat Cavit at March 31, 2005 4:12 PM

Instead of a full extension, how about a Greasemonkey user script? Other scripts have been made already for other sites.

http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts

Posted by: Steven Barnett at March 31, 2005 4:58 PM

Personally I have PrefButtons installed, and just turn javascript off for a moment whenever I'm at Foxtrot or Dilbert. I might have to try this, though, and save myself two clicks ;-)

Posted by: dolphinling at March 31, 2005 9:16 PM