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whochan's extensions - annoying ads
Hi.After countless comments and reports to whochan's extensions I got fed up with his actions. Before I start, I'd like to note that I'm aware that I'm not obliged to use his extensions and can use their alternatives. I just want to fight spam.
There's his Image Preview Popup extension that does its job pretty well, except for showing advertisements to his other extensions (Link Redirector and Content Block Helper). Those ads were shown every time you hovered over an image, right under your mouse pointer - so if you wanted to click on an image, you clicked on a link that pointed to whochan's other extension.
There is no way to disable those ads except for manually editing the extension archive.
This is purely annoying, and you can see dozens of comments saying that his extensions contain spam (just click on "reported issues"). The newest version of Image Preview Popup displays a black bar anchored to the bottom of the window, and there's a link to his Content Block Helper. Oh, irony: the author of content blocker displays a content you'd want to block.
I would like to see a reply from the Opera Team. Can you do something against such spam?
I too am having problems with whochan. I had installed Image Preview Popup and it worked great. All of a sudden this Favicon Changer extension keeps popping up on the bottom of my page. I disabled and uninstalled Image Preview Popup but am still getting the Favicon Changer extension popup which I did not install.
I also have problem with whochan's extensions. At first time I used ImagePriviewPopup, i thought it was the best extension.
But now I hate it, because its extensions makes me me to install his other extensions such as FaviconChanger that I generally do not. The worst thing is, on the pages appear SPAM over some elements such as Facebook Like button, etc. It is OK to put links to his other extensions somewhere in preferences page, but NOT on page I am reading.
Opera needs to do something about it, because otherwise why have introduced extensions. They should facilitate the use of the Opera, not to annoy users.
And last, I'm interested can I edit an extension, and set it as my extension to the Opera extensions site? I am thinking of changing ImagePriviewPopup extension but to remove spam, and upload it.
But now I hate it, because its extensions makes me me to install his other extensions such as FaviconChanger that I generally do not. The worst thing is, on the pages appear SPAM over some elements such as Facebook Like button, etc. It is OK to put links to his other extensions somewhere in preferences page, but NOT on page I am reading.
Opera needs to do something about it, because otherwise why have introduced extensions. They should facilitate the use of the Opera, not to annoy users.
And last, I'm interested can I edit an extension, and set it as my extension to the Opera extensions site? I am thinking of changing ImagePriviewPopup extension but to remove spam, and upload it.
Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:
Originally posted by mslobodan:
I am thinking of changing ImagePriviewPopup extension but to remove spam, and upload it.
I am not too sure but you can do that. But you should first ask whochan and even when you upload the extension you must write that you have modified the extension and it's not your own extension.
In fact, this depends on extension license. Opera repository supports two license models: Apache license and Opera hosting license. If extension is published under Apache license - you can do anything with it, even sell it. With Opera hosting license you can do almost nothing with code of extension.
Discussed extensions seem to be under Opera hosting license. So, reusing code of these extensions in other projects is not allowed.
27. October 2011, 05:12:57 (edited)
All whochan's extensions have been deleted.
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I think this extension is very good, and you should have a look:
http://my.opera.com/Deathamns/blog/opera-extension-imagus
http://my.opera.com/Deathamns/blog/opera-extension-imagus
From what I can tell whochan took his extensions down himself. It appears he is going to make it so that all of his extensions will not work unless you have his linkredirector extension installed. see this page close to the bottom of the page: http://my.opera.com/whochan/blog/previewpopup?startidx=300#comments
His extensions were most probably deleted due to advertising of his other extensions. For example, installing ContentBlockHelper would show you ads of his other extensions like Image Preview Popup.
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are there any other programs that do what whochan's did? I'd really like to try this out... and yeah preferably without any annoying ads...
Try Imagus. It's very useful and isn't limited to preview popups, but also does all sorts of image-related things.
http://my.opera.com/Deathamns/blog/opera-extension-imagus
http://my.opera.com/Deathamns/blog/opera-extension-imagus
Originally posted by matee:
Now I need to install ContentBlockHelper and I can't find it anywhere!
And would you please answer this question: WHY? Instead of that ContentBlockHelper filled with advertising spam, why not use a good ad-blocker like Opera AdBlock or NoAds.
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Whochan removed his extensions, not the moderators.
http://my.opera.com/whochan/blog/autocomplete?cid=74050212&startidx=100#comment74050212
Whochan's extension is great at removing hard to find javascript ads, which are hard to block. Opera AdBlock does not see them. I have not tried NoAds. I agree that using whochan's versions is not worth it due to the ads. Even when you install his additional software the ads still pop up.
I just take the extension, find the offending code and disable it. I found that if you remove the offending code it will detect that it has been removed, but if you replace the instructions to display popup with "do nothing" the script operates as it should.
http://my.opera.com/whochan/blog/autocomplete?cid=74050212&startidx=100#comment74050212
Whochan's extension is great at removing hard to find javascript ads, which are hard to block. Opera AdBlock does not see them. I have not tried NoAds. I agree that using whochan's versions is not worth it due to the ads. Even when you install his additional software the ads still pop up.
I just take the extension, find the offending code and disable it. I found that if you remove the offending code it will detect that it has been removed, but if you replace the instructions to display popup with "do nothing" the script operates as it should.
Originally posted by james438:
Whochan removed his extensions, not the moderators.
Means his nasty extensions will be back - oh man!!!
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OMG seriously, no one? where can I find anything like antibrowsniffer? please I'd like to get an extension similar to it without the ads that everyone is talking about... please?
Hi guys! Please help, how to delete ContentBlock helper? Earlier I had installed it and when I decided to change it properties, site said that ContentBlock helper was deleted from server. https://addons.opera.com/ru/addons/extensions/details/contentblockhelper/4.2.0/
And it disappeared from extensions list. But this helper always popups in any web-page what I serf. Please help, if anyone knows. I'm Russian, that means I know both languages.
And it disappeared from extensions list. But this helper always popups in any web-page what I serf. Please help, if anyone knows. I'm Russian, that means I know both languages.
@4got what u mean by "extensions list" ? the one that build into Opera itself or the one on the site ?
In built-in list i still have IPP 4.3.1, AB 2.1.1, CBH 4.2.0, LR 4.3.1 - though every but CBH are disabled by me now.
Probably u have some other his extension still active. Or that is a large bug in Opera itself.
Personally i only saw that popup few times and quickly disabled it, i did not edited extension sources or something like that.
But i can't remember now where i disabled this exactly.
In built-in list i still have IPP 4.3.1, AB 2.1.1, CBH 4.2.0, LR 4.3.1 - though every but CBH are disabled by me now.
Originally posted by suzybel57:
All of a sudden this Favicon Changer extension keeps popping up on the bottom of my page. I disabled and uninstalled Image Preview Popup but am still getting the Favicon Changer extension popup which I did not install.
Probably u have some other his extension still active. Or that is a large bug in Opera itself.
Personally i only saw that popup few times and quickly disabled it, i did not edited extension sources or something like that.
But i can't remember now where i disabled this exactly.
Originally posted by the-Arioch:
But i can't remember now where i disabled this exactly.
It's a pity, that you can't remember! :-)
I mean the one that I open in Opera\Extensions\Manage Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+E)
I can't disable it in any way. I searched it in Opera's folders but found nothing. I don't want reinstall Opera.