TechNullogy » Adblock Plus http://www.technullogy.net Musings of a convert to nerdism Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:43:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Safe Internet Browsing: OpenDNS, AdBlock Plus, Profanity Filter for Greasemonkey addon and Firefox http://www.technullogy.net/index.php/2009/09/27/profanity-filter-for-greasemonkey-addon-in-firefox/ http://www.technullogy.net/index.php/2009/09/27/profanity-filter-for-greasemonkey-addon-in-firefox/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:39:50 +0000 MJ Hufford http://www.technullogy.net/?p=180 I logged onto Facebook this morning and one of my “friends” had posted a link to something he thought was funny.  It had profanity in the title.  I’m not a fan of profanity, but didn’t want to flat out block my friend, so I went in search of a profanity filter at UserScripts.org. To my delight, I found one and it works great!  For the script to work, you’ll need Firefox, Greasemonkey and the Profanity Filter (install in that order).

I’ve been a devout Firefox convert for a couple years now.  While impressed with Chrome and Safari, I just can’t leave Firefox.  I’ll even concede that, “in my humble opinion”, IE 8 SEEMS FASTER THAN FIREFOX?!  GASP!!! Dare I say?  Nevertheless, the “Add On” features of Firefox will keep me a Firefox user unless the competition does something about it.  Here are my top 5 “Can’t Live Without” add-ons:

  1. AdBlock Plus – I haven’t seen an ad on a website in a couple years.  I bet I wouldn’t recognize half the sites I visit if this add-on was disabled!
  2. Firebug – a web developer MUST have (features in Safari and IE are comparable, but not up to par)
  3. GreaseMonkey – Runner user scripts to make the net more enjoyable.  Here are a few of my favorite scripts:
    1. ExpertsExhangeFilter
    2. Google Account Multi-Logon
    3. PROFANITY FILTER (keep reading)
    4. Facebook Purity: For those annoying survey results on Facebook…blah!
  4. CoolIris – The coolest way to search Craigslist!
  5. TwitterFox (recently renamed to Echofon, horrible name!) / TinyURL Generator – used in conjunction! :-)

While I’m on the “safe browsing” kick, please check out OpenDNS.org.  Thank you OpenDNS.org, Mozilla, Greasemonkey and the countless open source developers for helping me keep the garbage out of my house!  Surfing without OpenDNS, AdBlock plus and Profanity Filter is like driving without your seat belt fastened.

UPDATE:  This Profanity Filter script for Greasemonkey seems to work with far less latency than the aforementioned.  It also allows for customized replacement strings.

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