Eliminates Huffington Post Entries from Yahoo News list. Will run through iterative cycles to continue cleaning up the page as more are loaded.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Purge Huffington Post from Yahoo News feed
// @version 1.3
// @namespace edward
// @author Edward
// @description Eliminates Huffington Post Entries from Yahoo News list. Will run through iterative cycles to continue cleaning up the page as more are loaded.
// @include http*://*.yahoo.*/*
// @grant unsafeWindow
// ==/UserScript==
setInterval(removeSpam, 2000);
function removeSpam() {
var spanTags = document.getElementsByTagName('span');
var spamNames = ['Huffington Post', 'The Huffington Post', 'ThinkProgress', 'Vox'];
var found;
for (var i = 0; i < spanTags.length; i++) {
if (contains(spamNames, spanTags[i].textContent)) {
found = spanTags[i];
parentBlock = getParent(getParent(getParent(getParent(found))));
removeAllChildren(parentBlock);
}
}
}
function getParent(o) {
return o.parentNode;
}
function contains(a, obj) {
var i = a.length;
while (i--) {
if (a[i] === obj) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
function removeAllChildren(o) {
while (o.firstChild) {
o.removeChild(o.firstChild);
}
}