Disabling InteliTxt in Safari?

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  1. ray_uk, Aug 27, 2006

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    Well as the title say's im trying to find a way of disabling InteliTxt in Safari, if found a pluging and script add on for Firefox but Id preferbly use Safari.
    Ive googled it and searched this forum however any suggestions in getting this accomplished would be appreciated.
     
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  2. mduser63, Aug 27, 2006

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    Most websites (MacNN for example) have a way to turn it off. They (obviously) don't make it really easy to find, but it's there. IntelliText is one of the most annoying schemes advertisers have come up with, so I ALWAYS turn it off when I find a site that has it.
     
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  3. Nermal, Aug 27, 2006

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    I've added the servers to my /etc/hosts file and redirected them to 0.0.0.0 :)
     
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  4. HiRez, Aug 27, 2006

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    I know this doesn't help you, but there is an extension (GreaseMonkey) that will do it in Firefox. Only problem is sometimes instead of removing just the rollover/linking thing, it will remove the entire word from the text.

    Anyway, I agree it is evil. If I could hunt down the bastards that came up with that I would sentence them to surf the internet 15 hours a day where every single word is an IntelliTXT link.

    EDIT: Found a better Greasemonkey script for disabling IntelliTXT links: this one appears to work perfectly and not blank out words. :)
     
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  5. ray_uk, Aug 28, 2006

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    Thanks to everyone thats responded

    Thanks to everyone thats responded, mduser63 i'll definitely have a look on the sites that I find it on as im a registered user on most of those, so should hopefully be able to find a way of doing that.

    Nermal this is probably going to sound really ignorant of me but where in
    OS X do you find the /etc/hosts , im aware of where it is under windows but have never seen it in OS X.

    HiRez I thought I'll have a look around and see if there is any way of implementing GreaseMonkey scripts under Safari.
    Came across these but havent tried them yet.

    http://www.ditchnet.org/wp/2005/11/11/release-a-cocoa-app-friday-safari-guide-12/

    http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php

    :D
     
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