Update: A comprehensive collection of ways to undo the black-out can be found in this Gist.
Five minutes into work this morning, I already ran against the Wikipedia black-out. If you try it yourself, you will see the article's content being briefly visible and then disappearing.
Five minutes into work this morning, I already ran against the Wikipedia black-out. If you try it yourself, you will see the article's content being briefly visible and then disappearing.
If you run following script in the console, you can undo the black-out. This script removes the overlay from the DOM, and makes all other elements visible again (which might not be completely correct).
jQuery("#mw-sopaOverlay").remove();
jQuery("*").show();
This was mostly just a fun exercise, I will not be using this script. I fully support this protest.
If you would've clicked the "Learn more" link, you know, to learn more, you wouldn't have needed to check out that source :)
ReplyDeleteThe "Learn more" link doesn't take me to the original article.
ReplyDeleteThere are other (more supported) ways to circumvent this measure for emergencies though: using mobile or disabling JavaScript.
Earlier today I put up a Safari extension (on my site, http://alastairs-place.net) that uses a stylesheet to achieve the same effect. I think Firefox supports a user stylesheet, which you could easily use to do the same thing.
ReplyDeleteIt's a pretty half-assed way to black out the site, if you ask me.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your info. I really appreciate your efforts and I will be waiting for your further write ups thanks once again.
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