avoision

I prefer to call it avoision - because some websites are egregious.

In day to day life we vote with our wallets, but the online world is a different place. We vote with our clicks. Avoision: A configurable (Real Soon Now™), and free add-on for your browser gives you the power to take back control... or whatever... be a minor irritation while feeling like you have some power.

features

intercepts requests to sites that you don't want to support and redirects to a MementoWeb API supporting web archiver (defaulting to archive.today, which you should totally donate to if you find this project useful)
with the anti-web-archiver arms race ongoing, we now support multiple methods
- via.hypothesis
- unv.is
- outline.com
right-click context menu to send current page to archive.today or to archive.today via any of the above listed methods
cleans amazon referral links
strips most URL tracking parameters
click the extension icon to change it's current mode of operation
- blank: standard operation
- ARC: archiving only - no URL stripping
- STRP: URL stripping only - no archiving
- OFF: yeah... off

planned

configurability via text file
detect and remove non-amazon affiliate links as I find them

installation

It's unlikely I'll ever submit this to google or mozilla; I don't trust them.

Chromium-based browsers

Download chromium folder to a convenient location
Point your browser to chrome://extensions
Ensure you're in developer mode
Click on "Load unpacked extension"
Select the folder where you saved the files listed above

Mozilla-based browser

Download avoision.zip to a convenient location
Open the menu, select Add-ons
Click on the gear
Select Install Add-on from file...
Open the ZIP file and watch as Firefox refuses to install it - I prefer Waterfox anyway

Or else...

Redo step 1~2, then go to about:debugging and load zip file as temporary addons.

However, you need to do that everytime when you've launch or restart browser.

(I hear that it might work in greasemonkey on Firefox, but haven't tried it myself)

faq

Q - I'd like you to add <feature>.

A - Don't make me code in Javascript. Or go ahead and fill out an issue. I'm not saying it couldn't happen.

Q - I'd like to argue over the inclusion or exclusion of a website.

A - Feel free to send me your argument by opening an issue here, I'll be happy to read about them.

Q - Your extension broke my browser|OS|computer|mind.

A - As my co-worker used to say: idontbelieveyou.gif. Also the (poorly written) source code is available for you here. If you downloaded this extension anyplace other than here, you were swindled my friend. Seriously, I will never: sell this extension, put in anything to steal data or otherwise fuck with the end-users. I use it myself every day. The source will always be available.

kowith337/avoision