Reply to: SOPA - anyone GAS?

[cojak]

And if anyone wonders why I'm harsh with bogus posters/ businesses posting links to their own sites without really helping others, wait 10 minutes and then google 'parasite marketing'.

It will all become clear...

Internet Marketers; I eat them for breakfast.

[cojak]

Two

WE have a winner Ladies and Gentlemen!

Step up for your cuddly toy sonny (but don't pull that thread if you want the ears to stay on....)

[MarillionFan]

Two

Err, okay for some reason the moderator removed the link to the extension page, and didn't even keep the name, making it impossible to find out what the message was talking about.

To find the new extension, Google "canisbos gDirectLinks" and you will be able to find it. Not sure I can see the harm of posting the direct link? Especially since the thread was discussing the very subject of suitable extensions for solving this problem?

To mods: If it's okay, the direct link is once again: Mod reply:No, it's not OK.
Hope I've helped someone!

They seem to be turning the whole of Google into a pain nowadays.

For Safari users: I Don’t Want to Be Counted, I Just Want Links

Hi! The extension you're linking to is bad, and doesn't handle Google Instant results.

Canisbos (a very talented Safari extension programmer) has now created a new extension that's a super-efficient subset of his full LinkThing extension.

The new extension only handles Google, and it does so in an extremely resource-light fashion, and with complete support for Google Instant results.

This is for anyone that just wants the right to more privacy and link control on Google. No longer will you have to visit a page just to be able to copy a clean URL. No longer will your Safari history be filled with non-sense "google.com/url?..." entries rather than the real page.

It even has the option of re-writing Google Images results to point directly to the image, if you want it to. That's available in the options. It's a fantastic extension, and is the best one in its field!

So, without further ado, go and download <mod note you can guess, can't you?>, the definitive word in getting rid of this Google annoyance!

[Sysman]

Even simpler:

Use Google's cached version of the English pages while offline.

[For those wondering where the 'cached' link is on Google, they've moved it into the instant preview pane, which is a pain.]

They seem to be turning the whole of Google into a pain nowadays.

For Safari users: I Don’t Want to Be Counted, I Just Want Links

[PAH]

only the english language part of wikipedia is closing. So just find what you need on the french, german or spanish pages and run them through google translate

Even simpler:

Use Google's cached version of the English pages while offline.

[For those wondering where the 'cached' link is on Google, they've moved it into the instant preview pane, which is a pain.]

[Sysman]

Surprisingly, the French version is considerably superior to the English in one very important respect: it mentions me

I'm not sure it's still there, but the Finnish wiki used to have a link to a site I was working on.

It was a complete bugger to edit it when I changed the article's location, as I don't understand a word of Finnish.

I lost heart when they restored an older version from backups, so did a redirect at my end instead.

[NickFitz]

only the english language part of wikipedia is closing. So just find what you need on the french, german or spanish pages and run them through google translate

Surprisingly, the French version is considerably superior to the English in one very important respect: it mentions me

[d000hg]

only the english language part of wikipedia is closing. So just find what you need on the french, german or spanish pages and run them through google translate

You'd think with all those Hispanics, they would shut the Spanish one too.

[Spacecadet]

only the english language part of wikipedia is closing. So just find what you need on the french, german or spanish pages and run them through google translate

[Sysman]

Easy, they can write a big story about how Wikipedia is shut instead

It might be interesting to see what they come up with in other stories.

[d000hg]

Easy, they can write a big story about how Wikipedia is shut instead

[Sysman]

Wikipedia going down for a day in protest, random individuals turning off their sites too (big deal), etc.

I like this comment to the El Reg article:

Journalists

How the hell are any of Thursday's newspapers going to get content if professional, qualified, experienced Journalists can't paste copy from Wikipedia?!

[NickFitz]

The worst thing about it was that it involved breaking the Internet - not just tampering, but serious breakage using techniques more commonly used by China's Great Firewall, and in countries such as Iran. And to add insult to injury, the politicians promoting the act not only admitted they didn't have the faintest understanding of the technical issues, they actually boasted of it and took pride in their ignorance

Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard

SOPA Debate Highlights Congress's Ignorance - Miller-McCune