[Req] Clean up Yahoo webmail

[leecovuk]

Hello Guest,

With your filter on and at the top of Web Page Filters, I can see the 'web search' box itself removed on uk.yahoo.com
It doesn't seem to be impacting on my webmail pages.

As for what it matches, I'm guessing what to here ...
with Prox's log window turned on including 'html debug info' so the browser shows the code, I see the following one match on the webmail 'Check Mail' page when I search the resulting page of code for 'find it'. I've included the surrounding code as well :

Code:

<Match: <a> Remove: Ad Links     7.11.29 [sd] (d.2) >
<a class=ProXPref id="ygmalogo" href="http://uk.mail.yahoo.com"><img src="http://eur.a1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/a/uk/mail/btyclassic1.gif" width="233" height="60" border="0" alt="BT Yahoo! Mail" /></a>
</Match>
<span class="Prox&#x20;ProxBanner" style="display:inline">?<a class="Prox&#x20;ProxBanner" href="http://uk.mail.yahoo.com" target="_top">Banner:
</a><a class="Prox&#x20;ProxBanner" href="http://eur.a1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/a/uk/mail/btyclassic1.gif" target="_top" title="BT Yahoo! Mail">AdH
eur.a1.yimg.com 233x60</a></span>
            <div id="ygmauser">
                <form id="ygmafrm" name="yhdr_form" action="http://srd.yahoo.com/loc=head&st=yahoo/*http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search" target="_blank">
                    <fieldset><legend>Yahoo! Search</legend>
<Match: Find it >
<label for="ygsp">Search:</label>
</Match>
<input type="text" id="ygsp" name="p" size="35" maxlength="100" title="Search the Web" />
                    <span id="ygbtcx"><input class="ygbt" type="submit" name="yhdr_submit_button" value="Web Search" title="Mail" />
</span>
                    <input type="hidden" id="fr" name="fr" value="ush1-mail" />
                    </fieldset>
                </form>
            </div>  
        <script charset="iso-8859-1"  type="text/javascript" src="http://mail.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/mg/js/20071101/uni_header.js">
</script>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<!-- SpaceID=398328006 loc=HJAVA noad-spid -->
<script charset="iso-8859-1"  language=javascript>
if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object();
window.yzq_d['GKcPP9mSu10-']='&U=13o0nr678%2fN%3dGKcPP9mSu10-%2fC%3d200071361.201431075.202696288.200942576%2fD%3dHEAD%2fB%3d200623653%2fV%3d1';
</script><noscript><img width=1 height=1 alt="" src="http://row.bc.yahoo.com/b?P=S0c0z9RSaDAc2pwnSNtxuAJIV1CuREjbddcABm_V&T=14101er2u%2fX%3d1222342103%2fE%3d398328006%2fR%3dukmail%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d2.1%2fW%3dHR%2fY%3dUKIE%2fF%3d3366340628%2fQ%3d-1%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3d366852D4&U=13o0nr678%2fN%3dGKcPP9mSu10-%2fC%3d200071361.201431075.202696288.200942576%2fD%3dHEAD%2fB%3d200623653%2fV%3d1">
</noscript>
<Match: <script> Block: Ad Scripts     7.12.02 [pr sd jd] (d.2) >
<script type="text/javascript">gLaunchProfile.stop("adLoadTime");
</Match>

Lee

[whenever]

According to the code you posted, please try below entry in AdKeys-S.ptxt:

Code:

[^/]++.mail.yahoo.com/        $SET(sAdKey=.ygmauser.)

[leecovuk]

Hello whenever,

Thanks, that seems to do it. The search box has gone.

You were obviously on the right lines with your earlier suggestion.
Thanks to you all who offered help in this little issue.
I suppose this is better than my solution, because the Mail Classic logo is presumably a tracker image. (Not that I can be totally track-free anyway due to simply using Yahoo webmail at all ...)

Lee

[ProxRocks]

cool!

was hoping that would do the trick 'cause i d/l'd from the link you sent, and even running it with no changes at all to it, i didn't get the search box...

which actually leads me to believe it must be my HOSTS file blocking it, but didn't verify...

[leecovuk]

(Sep. 25, 2008 03:58 PM)ProxRocks Wrote:  was hoping that would do the trick 'cause i d/l'd from the link you sent, and even running it with no changes at all to it, i didn't get the search box...

which actually leads me to believe it must be my HOSTS file blocking it, but didn't verify...

hmm ok. Maybe the discrepancies might be due to this though :-

I have about 7 different Yahoo-based logins, and one of them still results in the search box being in place. It doesn't mask the Options links though, presumably because a 'Yahoo UK & Ireland Mail Classic' logo is also in place and keeping some page structure, much like after my earlier solution. (although without me now having my solution in place)

This makes me realise that I may have been inadvertently throwing you off the scent throughout this, seeing as my @btinternet.com and @talk21.com addresses seem to have a different result to my @yahoo.com one. Sorry if I should have mentioned I was using Yahoo/BTInternet addresses even though I am using the same base login page and redirect in a Y!Login autologin script for all addresses; the resulting urls all look very similar (to me anyway). Some of the pathing is obviously subtly different.

As for the one rogue page/login I mentioned, I should now have enough knowledge to work it out for myself and pinpoint the search form ID. However, how will I add that to the AdKeys-S.ptxt as well as the other entry? ie you can't have more than one matching url can you? (I suppose you might need to see it to answer that)

Lee

[leecovuk]

Hello again,

Probably unsurprisingly (!) I'm not managing to find the search box code in the 1 'rogue' webmail login I mentioned above. That is an ***@yahoo.com address but visited via the same login path as the others.
The 'find it' filter from before doesn't seem to find anything.
I've looked through the page code at some length and can't see anything like a ygmauser div section. There are things such as "searchTheWebtop" and "searchTheWebbottom" but they appear to be the search boxes adjacent to the mail area.

Any ideas on how I can do this one ? I suppose it would be nice to sort this one, then I/we have a full set.


Thanks again,
Lee

[whenever]

Why don't you give firebug extension a try? It will help you to find the ID of the search bar.

(Sep. 25, 2008 09:11 PM)leecovuk Wrote:  However, how will I add that to the AdKeys-S.ptxt as well as the other entry? ie you can't have more than one matching url can you?

I am not sure if this would work but you can give it a try:

Code:

[^/]++.mail.yahoo.com/        $SET(sAdKey=.keyword1|keyword2.)

[leecovuk]

Hello again, whenever,

ok, I have just installed Firebug and will give it a go. I don't rate my chances of success very highly though!
How did you know to treat these elements as 'Adkeys', whatever they are?

Lee

[ProxRocks]

if you're thinking of a plug-in approach, i have two self-made GreenBrowser plug-ins for both id= and class=
technically, they are "bookmarklets" that i stumbled upon and made GreenBrowser plug-ins out of...
screen-cap follows:

[whenever]

@ProxRocks, the GreenBrowser plugins look interesting, could you please share them?

[ProxRocks]

see attached...

they are actually bookmarklets from somebody called "Accessify"...
i don't remember where i bumped into them, to be honest...

and totally clueless as to "where" i pulled the .ico's from, else i'd give credit there also...

if you open the .htm, you could technically use the "one-liner" (between the script tags) as a bookmarklet, if you prefer that 'link-based' method (which i don't, lol)...


drop the two folders into your GreenBrowser "Plugin" folder, if you know GB, you'll know what to do from there...

[leecovuk]

ooh well and truly out my comfort zone now with all these clever utilities :O
I'll see what my brain cells can achieve ...

[ProxRocks]

<totally off-topic>

while on the topic of GreenBrowser plug-ins, here are a few more just to illustrate how to "interact" with the sidki-config at the 'browser level'...

ie, as i disable scripts by default, one of these plug-ins reloads the page (into its same tab) with the sidki-pertinent keyword appended to the URL...

</end off-topic GreenBrowser "plug"...>

[leecovuk]

I've been playing around with just Firebug so far; clever how you can get it to highlight and pinpoint code areas.

I was wrong earlier; the ygmauser div class does exist on my 'rogue' webmail pages when looking via Firebug, apparently just like when using the other logins. So I have no idea why it isn't matching there, because the end page url I/you end up looking at has the same url pathing as the other webmail logins.
In fact I don't seem to be able to match anything on my 'rogue' pages using AdKeys-S.ptxt. Even when simply having the one entry for mail.yahoo.com; ie not trying to be clever and match twice or anything.

How generic can I make the url in the AdKeys-S.ptxt? I've tried my usual basic tricks of
*.yahoo.*
or even
*.*
which would be excessive, but I can't seem to match anything.
(I do need to learn the basics on url matching, is there a handy idiots' tutorial somewhere?)

Presumably some other filters in Prox are over-riding me but just in this particular webmail login scenario? Of course there is the other option that I am being consistently highly inept.
Beats me ...


Lee