Howto: Disable Annoying Intellitxt Links
Posted in Geeky by Dan at 2:47 pm
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I sincerely despise Intellitxt stuffed blogs. The technology is annoying, disruptive, and unattractive – time to disable it. There are a few ways that I know of to accomplish this. If you are using Firefox you can simply download an extension that will disable those popups. But for IE users you can take it a step further and disable Intellitxt on your systems HOSTS level, but since Intellitxt is using custom domain names for all their advertisers this can be quite a chore since the HOSTS file does not accept wildcard characters. Other users have suggested that you just disable scripting in IE, but I can imagine that would make a less then pleasurable browsing experience.
Anybody else have any tips that they would care to share?
Is there any way to do this in Safari?
gotta love grease monkey
If you’re using firefox you can just used AdBlock to get rid of these annoyances. Block the intellilink with this filter:
http://*.intellitxt.com*
Others can be blocked in a very similar way
Mmmmm…. I’m trying to figure out how to block it on Safari and IE Connor
Off topic a bit, but I can’t figure this out. When I click on “Install this script” after the countdown, clicking “Install” has no effect. This happens on every GM script I try to install. BTW, yes, I have GreaseMonkey installed.
Thanks!
Hoping to find some add’l info re: this old thread — am trying to disable IntelliTXT pop-up ads on IE 6.0.2900…
Cheers,
MA
For Internet Explorer, very easy.
IE:Internet Options; Security tab; click Restricted globe; click Sites…
enter sites like this:
*.intellitxt.com
*.kontera.com
*.doubleclick.com
*.doubleclick.net
etc.
You will not see the ads because adding to Resticted zone prevents the javascript from running. Also no cookies can be set, etc.
Works great.