I’m really not much of a hacker, but this is so trivial, I just had to share:
- Do a “Show Package Contents” on the application.
- Go into the “Resources” folder
- There, you’ll see 6 files starting with Ad—, open them all in a text editor.
- For the first 5, in the stylesheet, add “display: none; height: 0;” into the body style declaration.
- For the last file, AdSuffix.html, add an inline style to the paragraph tag “style=display: none; height: 0;”
That’s all there is to it.
Technically speaking, the ads are still being displayed, they’re just invisible and zero pixels tall.I guess that strictly speaking, this is a post about CSS. I don’t advocate you doing this, but really, pretty silly security.
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Awesome, dude — thanks
Seems to mostly work. I woke up this morning, and there was a big blank space… so it probably needs a little more testing.
I’ll post updates as I find them.
Yup. Still better than it was
Okay, I think I’ve got it now. Throw an !important after the height: 0 (but before the semicolon) in all of your CSS statements. There must have been another height declaration elsewhere overriding things.
Nope, that actually does nothing. Boo.
Actualy if you delete SOME of the files they won’t shop up at all! Even not a blank space…
I’ve write an applescript for it:
http://joopmicroop.freeweb7.com/blog/2008/01/remove-twitterrific-301-ads.html
Confirmed. That looks like it does the trick Joopmicroop!
Ooops… again, time delay. The AppleScript method does not appear to be working. I just got an ad. The installation worked fine though.
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