greasemonkey ignore script

Just for the fun of it, here’s a greasemonkey recipe:

The basic script to run jQuery inside of greasemonkey is found here: How to play nicely with jQuery and Greasemonkey

It’s not nice to leech bandwidth of the jQuery folks, so please replace the link in the GM_JQ.src assignment with a local copy or have Les host it or ask me nicely and I may just host a public copy myself.

You’ll want to replace this

function letsJQuery() {
  alert($); // check if...
}

with something like this

function letsJQuery() {
  // ignore twits on sidebar
  $("p:has(>span.author:contains(TWIT'S NAME))").remove();
  // ignore twits on comment pages
  $("div:has(>div.posted:contains(TWIT'S NAME))").remove();
}

Copy and paste as needed for more than one twit or set up an array and iterate over it.

Human-readable translation of the code:

sidebar: remove all P elements that have a SPAN containing the string TWIT’S NAME as a direct descendant.
comments: remove all DIV elements that have a DIV with class “posted” as a direct descendant that contains the string TWIT’S NAME.

By the way, there’s a subtly different variation of the selector:

function letsJQuery() {
  // ignore twits on sidebar
  $("p:has(>span.author):contains(TWIT'S NAME)").remove();
  // ignore twits on comment pages
  $("div:has(>div.posted):contains(TWIT'S NAME)").remove();
}

which will remove all sidebar blurbs and comments that even mention the twits.

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