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TaoPhoenix:
Slashdot has been struggling for a while, and Dice seems to have its own ideas on UI layout. It seems the much reviled Beta one is parked for a while, but a few days ago, something truly awful appeared: This video box:

IDEA: Greasemonkey script etc to hide Slashdot Video box?

It's pretty clear in the page source it gets pulled with (variants by day?) code that starts off with stuff like this:

IDEA: Greasemonkey script etc to hide Slashdot Video box?

So I'm looking for some way it simply gets hidden local side, then the rest of the page would just be normal and I can pretend it wasn't there.

Mouser seems to think this is a good thing for Greasemonkey. (Which I've never used much! So I'll need some user help!)

Thoughts?

4wd:
Do you have a link to a page with it on?

I don't get it just looking around the site, (not even with uBlock/etc disabled), so maybe it's specific pages or a geo-localised object.

Edit: Just tried with a VPN and still don't see it, (using IE, Pale Moon, Dragon, or IceDragon).

TaoPhoenix:
Do you have a link to a page with it on?

I don't get it just looking around the site, (not even with uBlock/etc disabled), so maybe it's specific pages or a geo-localised object.

Edit: Just tried with a VPN and still don't see it, (using IE, Pale Moon, Dragon, or IceDragon).
-4wd (June 15, 2015, 08:19 PM)
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That's really weird!
Geo-Localized!? Where are you?
I get it on EVERY day's front page!
>:(

It's about 6 down on the page for me right now, and about there every time. Slashdot does a "rolling live update" with a script, and it always is forced to be about that spot on the page.

4wd:
Do you have a link to a page with it on?

I don't get it just looking around the site, (not even with uBlock/etc disabled), so maybe it's specific pages or a geo-localised object.

Edit: Just tried with a VPN and still don't see it, (using IE, Pale Moon, Dragon, or IceDragon).
-4wd (June 15, 2015, 08:19 PM)
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That's really weird!
Geo-Localized!? Where are you?-TaoPhoenix (June 15, 2015, 08:46 PM)
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Australia

I get it on EVERY day's front page!
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Found it!

Strange, I could have sworn it wasn't there the first time I looked.  Guess my brain's not completely caffeinated yet  :-[

Slashdot-VideoBytes.user.js

--- Code: Javascript ---// ==UserScript==// @name /. VideoBytes kill Kill KILL// @namespace I'm responsible// @include http://slashdot.org/*// ==/UserScript== // Just removes the  element with id 'slideshow-wrap'function remove(id) {  return (elem=document.getElementById(id)).parentNode.removeChild(elem);} remove('slideshow-wrap');
That gets rid of the video images but leaves the placeholder, now I can see some source I'll try and get rid of the rest.

TaoPhoenix:
Glad my guess was good!
I can fake pretending most of the other stuff Dice is doing doesn't matter, but that one is in a league of its own!

(They also had the bright idea to stick polls into the news section, but at least those start minimized and I can just decide to ignore minimized things. But the video one is brutal!)

Hehe Actually, are you ready to make *two* of them? Because if you can make it so easy even I can use it, I'm gonna post it ON slashdot in like 9 comment threads, and watch them then get grumpy and change it!

(But then the people that catch on can just change the script themselves/their tech buddy.)

 :Thmbsup:

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