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Kraigmo's avatar

Is there a way to permanently disable Infolinks from my browser?

Asked by Kraigmo (9421points) December 18th, 2010

I really hate the Infolinks service. It’s the service that highlights words on various websites, so when you scroll over the word, “more information” about that word appears.

(To see what I’m talking about, go to www.writesomething.net and notice the highlighted text).

Infolinks appear on many websites.

Is there a way to disable it, so it never works on my computer?

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LuckyGuy's avatar

I’m use Firefox and don’t see what you are talking about. What browser and operating system are you using?

Seelix's avatar

I’m using Firefox as well, with Vista. When I click the link that @Kraigmo provided, the word “kissing” is highlighted in blue and I get an Infolinks thingy too. If anyone knows how to get rid of it, I’d be happy to know as well.

Edit – I just clicked the link again and nothing was highlighted, but there are a bunch of Infolinks at the bottom of the page. Maybe it’s different every time?

Kraigmo's avatar

I’m using Firefox with Windows XP. If there are methods that work on IE and Chrome, i’d be interested in those, too, though.

Kraigmo's avatar

Thanks @world_hello . That AdBlock program is kinda hard to figure out… The green lists? The red lists? The white lists?

But I managed to add the value infolinks.com and infolinks.com/* to the black colored list and that got rid of this crap.

I noticed AdBlock also blocks Google’s text ads, which are actually helpful and never bothered me. But I figured out how to un-block those ads, so everything’s cool.

Thanks much

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