avoision
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I prefer to call it avoision - because some websites are egregious.
In day to day life we vote with our wallets, but the online world is a different place. We vote with our clicks.
Avoision: A configurable (Real Soon Now™), and free add-on for your browser gives you the power to take back
control... or whatever... be a minor irritation while feeling like you have some power.
features
- intercepts requests to sites that you don't want to support and redirects to a MementoWeb API supporting web archiver (defaulting to archive.today, which you should totally donate to if you find this project useful)
- with the anti-web-archiver arms race ongoing, we now support multiple methods
- via.hypothesis
- unv.is
- outline.com
- right-click context menu to send current page to archive.today or to archive.today via any of the above listed methods
- cleans amazon referral links
- strips most URL tracking parameters
- click the extension icon to change it's current mode of operation
- blank: standard operation
- ARC: archiving only - no URL stripping
- STRP: URL stripping only - no archiving
- OFF: yeah... off
planned
- configurability via text file
- detect and remove non-amazon affiliate links as I find them
installation
It's unlikely I'll ever submit this to google or mozilla; I don't trust them.
Chromium-based browsers
- Download chromium folder to a convenient location
- Point your browser to chrome://extensions
- Ensure you're in developer mode
- Click on "Load unpacked extension"
- Select the folder where you saved the files listed above
Mozilla-based browser
- Download avoision.zip to a convenient location
- Open the menu, select Add-ons
- Click on the gear
- Select Install Add-on from file...
- Open the ZIP file and watch as Firefox refuses to install it - I prefer Waterfox anyway
(I hear that it might work in greasemonkey on Firefox, but haven't tried it myself)
faq
Q - I'd like you to add \.
A - Don't make me code in Javascript. Or go ahead and fill out an issue. I'm not saying it couldn't happen.
Q - I'd like to argue over the inclusion or exclusion of a website.
A - Feel free to send me your argument by opening an issue here, I'll be happy to read about them.
Q - Your extension broke my browser|OS|computer|mind.
A - As my co-worker used to say: idontbelieveyou.gif. Also the (poorly written) source code is available for you here. If you downloaded this extension anyplace other than here, you were swindled my friend. Seriously, I will never: sell this extension, put in anything to steal data or otherwise fuck with the end-users. I use it myself every day. The source will always be available.