Here's how CSS can warn you about links to sites matching a "blacklist"
you define. This might be useful in weeding out bogus search results,
etc.
It uses substring attribute matching (which is CSS3); works in Firefox
but not IE. (Tested FF 1.0.2 and IE6.)
Example:
1. Edit userContent.css . (ChromEdit is convenient for this.)
Add selectors for the links you want to highlight. Example:
a[href*="sabox.co m"] /* '*=' matches substring */
{
background-color: yellow !important;
}
2. Save and restart Firefox. (I wish there were a "reread
userContent.css " button)
3. Google for "mortgage accelerated" (no quotes)
All links to sabox.com pages are highlighted in yellow. (Sabox.com was
chosen for the example because it pretends to be informative, but is
just a list of more search results and ads.)
There's probably a lot more that could be done with this.
- other substring matches: catch javascript links, embedded '@' signs,
PDF files, .exe, etc.
- avoid false positives
- how well would this scale up for many sites? I haven't tested this.
- As shown above, this takes effect on every page, not just Google. But
there's another FF extension that adds the domain as an ID to the body
tag, enabling per-site user CSS:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/uriid
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