Google.com Instant Preview annoyance.

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boris

Google.com Instant Preview annoyance.

Post by boris »

Has any of Big Three decided to block Google.com Instant Preview in "Annoyance" filter? A lot of people are asking for it on the web.
Michael
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Re: Google.com Instant Preview annoyance.

Post by Michael »

||google.com/webpagethumbnail? appears to prevent the thumbnails actually appearing, although it the website still attempts to load the image, something that I doubt could be prevented without removing removing functionality from the domain.
boris

Re: Google.com Instant Preview annoyance.

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google.com###vspb
google.com##.vspib

Removes all threads of Google Instant Preview.
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fanboy
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Re: Google.com Instant Preview annoyance.

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I guess we can trial it out in the annoyance filter. :arrow: :arrow: :arrow:

http://code.google.com/p/fanboy-adblock ... 7086333052
berzerk
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Re: Google.com Instant Preview annoyance.

Post by berzerk »

Inspecting the google search page with these filters in place (with Fiddler)
it turn out the "previews" are loaded in the background when clicking somewhere on the page anyway.

The following filter works in my case :

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|http://www.google.com/extern_js/*.js
... but that also takes away the javascript needed to change settings.
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