With recent mistakes by companies and organizations not knowing how to properly censor online documents, its easy to see why people believe the text they can’t see can’t be read. And with computer illiterate talking heads like Rush Limbaugh or internet illiterate censorship advocates like Ursula von der Leyen, it is easy to befuddle them with the appearance of censored text on the web pages they commonly visit.

A playful experiment in “censoring” a web page by hiding text and images behind blocks.

Try it out on your fffffavorite web pages. Grab the bookmarklet below and drag into the bookmarklet bar (or right-click as ‘Bookmark/Favorite this Link’).

Or mess with your ffffffriends. Download the Firefox extension, install into GreaseMonkey, or grab the JavaScript code and add to your site.

Don’t forget to take screenshots of your fffffavorite Ctrl+F’d web sites. Post ‘em in the comments!

Open-sourced by Greg Leuch. Available on GitHub.

Posted by Greg Leuch on Jul 28.09 to bookmarklet, censoring, ctrl+f'd, extension, firefox, greg leuch, web, zensursula   

Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!

The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet users outside of China the ability to surf the web as if they were inside mainland China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies). It’s open source, free and easy.

Watch the fffffat screencast:

This project is currently exhibited at the “Videotage” in Hong Kong (6.10.-4.11.2008)
Two computers are connected to a single keyboard and mouse allowing visitors to control both identical machines at the same time while using just a single input device. The only difference between the two internet terminals is their network connection; one machine is connected to the less restricted internet in Hong Kong, while the other is connected to the internet through a connection point in the mainland of China.





China Channel was developed by Aram Bartholl, Evan Roth and Tobias Leingruber (consulted by LM4K and Jamie Wilkinson.)

Download the CCFF add-on on www.chinachannel.hk and experience the Chinese censorship now!

Posted by Tobias Leingruber on Oct 26.08 to Add-on, Aram Bartholl, CCFF, censorship, China Channel, evan roth, exhibition, extension, firefox, Hong Kong, Installation, internet, mozilla, plugin, Tobias Leingruber, Videotage   

I’m a fan of the new Facebook design. I had a few issues, though, so I made a Firefox extension to make it more readable (and remove all the ads). See the before and after screenshots below.

» Click to install ‘Fix New Facebook’

(hassle-free!)

Before

The changes…

After

The extension is simply a compiled Greasemonkey userscript that adds a few CSS styles → fix-new-facebook.user.js

originally posted on tramchase.com

Posted by Jamie Dubs on Jul 24.08 to extension, facebook, firefox, hack   

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RollTube is a Rick Roll Firefox Extension that switches every YouTube video with the infamous Rick Roll video. The experience has been described as “like the whole internet ganging up and rick rolling you at the same time”.

 
We say: great to install across all the machines in your office / lab / classroom. RollTube is cross platform and needs no special admin rights to install!

 
The Video: includes instructions and RollTube snuff action!

RollTube – the rick roll firefox extension from fffffat labs on Vimeo.

 
Install:
UPDATED – You Tube seems to be on to us – they blocked the video. RollTube 0040 uses a different rick roll video. The War is on!
Get RollTube Regular or the super evil RollTube Autoplay here.

 
Info:
RollTube is the 2nd in our FFFFFAT series of evil firefox extensions (totally worksafe!) and follows hot on the heels of the original bad boy, the Firefox Tourettes Extension. FFFFFAT believes in supplying both sides in the all out Rick Astley war – so to protect ya neck check out the “Never be Rick Rolled again” Rick Roll Adblock Extension.

 
Open Source:
In typical fffffat fffffashion get and improve the source here
Auto play source here. Use the awesome User Script Compiler to turn the code into an extension.

 
Enjoy!

Posted by Theo Watson on Mar 13.08 to addons, extension, firefox, obama girl, opensource, pranks, rick roll   

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Now you don’t need to be an angry german kid to have an excuse to swear your mouth of in Deutsch. Thanks to occasus there is a German version of the Firefox tourettes extension – so install away and see if it’s true what they say about German’s having no sense of humor!

 
Install here: http://fffff.at/tourettes-de/
Source code here: http://fffff.at/download/TourettesDE.zip

Posted by Theo Watson on Feb 21.08 to extension, fffffirefox, firefox, firefox add-on   

question: what is the internet without links?

answer….




firefox plugin internot shows the web the way tim berners lee did not intend !! see here:

drudge can’t report….

cnn’s got no news…

can’t digg…

you are two clicks away from complete freedom…. install it: here

see also the excellent: tourettes & FFFFFire FFFFFox extension & time machine

Posted by zach on Feb 07.08 to extension, firefox, firefox add-on   

The FFFFFire FFFFFox extension enables you to reprezent F.A.T. to the fffffullest by replacing every ‘f’ with ‘fffff’. Help subtly spread the word about fffffat by installing it on every machine you come across………. it’s fffffire.

CLICK HERE TO INSTALL

Built using Theo’s source code and the User Script Compiler.

Source Code

Posted by Evan Roth on Nov 24.07 to extension, fffffat, fffffirefox, firefox, firefox add-on   

FFFFFire FFFFFox Extension….. reprezent fffffat to the fffffullest.

Posted by Jamie Dubs on Feb 27.07 to extension, fffffirefox, firefox, hack, plugin   

Tourettes Machine is a firefox plugin that randomly adds swear words to your form fields and text areas as you type.

Posted by Jamie Dubs on Jan 27.07 to extension, fffffirefox, firefox, hack, plugin, tourettes