April 01, 2005
Tired of Yahoo News ads?
Not that I really ever notice them, but discovered just today that adding any special character (: ; ^ etc) at an end of any yahoo news url gets rid of all ads on the page. Neat.
Observe a normal url:
The Pride of CT Goes to Prison
Same url wtih a ; at the end:
The Price of CT Goes to Prison
Probably won't last.. but good to know for copy-pasting news items for now.
Posted April 01, 2005 07:45 PM in Funnies
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On April 1, 2005 10:21 PM david added:
Looks like putting (nearly) any kind of garbage into the sid var works:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20050401/ap_on_re_us/rowland_prison&sid=g
On April 3, 2005 01:28 AM Chris added:
On April 4, 2005 08:51 AM Tom Klaasen added:
Both pages look the same in my browser though (firefox + adblock) :-)
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