Miscellany

greasemonkey script to remove redirects// No Middle Man// ==UserScript==// @name        NoMiddleMan// @namespace   http://0x539.blogspot.com/// @description Rewrites URLs to remove redirection scripts// @include     *// @exclude     http://del.icio.us/*// @exclude     http://*bloglines.com/*// @exclude     http://web.archive.org/*// @exclude     http://*wists.com/*// ==/UserScript==(function() {	for (var i=0; i<document.links.length; i++) 	{		link = document.links[i];		temp = link.href.toLowerCase();		// feeling lucky is NOT on, its used for redirects		var x,l;		x=link;		l=temp;        	if(l.indexOf('myminicity')>=0) {	                h=document.createTextNode("[Mini City Wanker]");	                x.parentNode.insertBefore(h, x.nextSibling);			continue;	        }        	if(l.indexOf('google')>=0 && l.indexOf('btni')>=0) {                	x.href = x.href.replace(/btni/gi, "btnG");	                h=document.createTextNode("[I'm Feeling unlucky]");	                x.parentNode.insertBefore(h, x.nextSibling);			continue;	        }		// ignore javascript links		start = temp.indexOf('javascript:');		if (start == 0) 		{				// Javascript in use			continue;		}		start = temp.lastIndexOf('http');		while(start!=-1)		{			// Grab the end			part = temp.substring(start);			// Eliminate the possibilities			hd = part.indexOf('http:');			if(hd==-1) hd = part.indexOf('http%3a');			if(hd==-1) hd = part.indexOf('http%253a');			if(hd!=-1)			{				// this http is a URL				break;			}			else			{				// This http isn't a URL portion, break it off and try again				temp = temp.substring(0, start);				start = temp.lastIndexOf('http');			}		}		//if(start==-1)	start = temp.lastIndexOf('http%3a');		//if(start==-1)	start = temp.lastIndexOf('http%253a');		//if(start==-1)	start = temp.lastIndexOf('http:');		if(start==-1)			{			// special case: handle redirect url without a 'http:' part			start = temp.lastIndexOf('www.');			if (start < 10) 			{				start = 0;			} 			else			{				link.href = link.href.substring(0, start) + 'http://' + link.href.substring(start);			}		}		// we are most likely looking at a redirection link		if (start > 0)		{			prefix = link.href.substring(0, start);			url = link.href.substring(start);			// check whether the real url is a parameter			qindex = prefix.lastIndexOf('?');			if (qindex > -1 && qindex < start) 			{				// it's a parameter, extract only the url								end = url.indexOf('&');				// "god" has a problem here, the url needs all the data				if(l.indexOf('ofdesire.org')>=0)				{					end=-1;				}				if (end > -1) 				{					url = url.substring(0, end);				}			}			// handle Yahoo's chained redirections			var temp = url;			url = unescape(url);			while (temp != url) 			{				temp = url;				url = unescape(url);			}			// Check stupid % marks			pc = url.lastIndexOf('%');			if(pc > -1)			{				url = url.substring(0,pc);			}			//else			//{			//	url = url + 'NOPC';			//}			// final bit of cleanup			url = url.replace(/\*/g, '&');			url = url.replace(/&amp;/g, '&');			// and we're done			link.href = url;		}	}})();