Browser Bleg
As far as I’m concerned, the most annoying thing on Al Gore’s Internets since pop-up ads is Snap. And, increasingly, for some reason that I cannot fathom, it’s use is on the rise. I hate it. It’s clutter. I accidentally mouse over some bit of text and now I can’t read a 1.5×1.5 area of a website. It sucks.
I want to never see it again. I use Firefox. Is there a way to make sure I never see it again?
Update: See here. I think I did that once and it came back. But it is working now. Cool. Thanks to Aubrey Turner in comments.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 am
if there is, let me know!
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:57 am
Take a look at Q3 in their FAQ. It gives a link that sets a cookie that disables snapshots.
I’m glad you asked this question, though, as it finally motivated me to look for a solution. I hate Snap, but just haven’t arsed myself to see if it could be disabled until now.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am
Ads? I use NoScript and haven’t seen an ad in years.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:42 am
You know, I have to chuckle a bit whenever I come across some item about how annoying yet another chunk of web glitter is. That’s why I do 95% of my browsing with JavaScript turned off. There’s an occassional downside, when I encounter a site that relies on JavaScript to do something that’d work just fine with plain old HTML, but it’s pretty rare that whatever that is is important enough to me to reload the page in my script-enabled environment.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Adblock Plus and NoScript for the win!
Whenever I browse on a machine that’s not mine, I’m stupefied by the sheer amount of ads and garbage like this I see. It’s actually a remarkable occurrence for me to actually see online advertising anymore.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Snap blows pretty hard. How do they make money? Most people would pay for a tool to block it.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Thanks for bringing this up. I just disabled Snap in the WordPress settings on my blog. It had annoyed me, but not to the point where I cared enough to do something about it.
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
basically you eat a cookie at snap.com, but the cookie does not stick around forever. Also, I regularly upchuck my cookies anyway.
How to fix that:
Dealing with web annoyances: Snap Preview, part 1
I really need to write part two. Basically part two is:
1. Get Adblock Plus
2. optional but recommended: get Adblock Filterset.G Updater
3 add this line to your advertisement filters:
http://spa.snap.com/snap_preview_anywhere.js*Done. Never see it again.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
While you’re at it, you can disable even more annoyances by installing the Flashblock plugin for Firefox.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Don’t install flashblock and noscript at the same, I had problems with them conflicting until I uninstalled flashblock.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I agree completely … Snap is definitely one of Al Gore’s less good inventions.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Adblock and No Script here too. I wouldn’t dream of venturing onto teh intertubes without them.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Adblock/noscript. I haven’t seen an ad in years.