block meebo bar

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For some insane reason, Slate decided to add something horrible called “meebo” to every web page.

Here’s how you block and hide it using the Adblock extension with Google Chrome.

Manually edit your filter and add these lines:

meebo.com
##div#meebo.meebo-00

 
The first line prevents you from downloading content from the meebo website, but sadly, it’s insufficient to hide their obnoxious bar.

The second line hides this latest piece of web dog poo.

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8 Comments

  1. Olaf Olafson — September 6, 2010 #

    Yes, let’s spread the word on how to do this.

    By the way, meebo has a variety of domain sites (www1, etc.), so the most effective way to write the first line is this:

    http://*meebo.com

    – that blocks all the variants of their domain name that still contain the accursed word “meebo.com”

    Dog poo, indeed.

  2. Steve — December 28, 2010 #

    Thanks for the info, but how do I manually filter vie google chrome? Please provide step by step instructions.

    Thanks again!

  3. imutau — January 12, 2011 #

    I got this to work in Chrome using the AdBlock app and the below instructions:

    - AdBlock Options
    - BlackList Tab
    - click the “Block an ad by its URL” link
    - In the box “Block URLs containing this text” enter the text they referenced:

    ##div#meebo.meebo-00

    - In the “$domain=” enter an * if it isn’t there already
    - Then click the “Block it!” button
    - Under the “Exclude Sites” tab enter “meebo.com” (no quotes) and save that page using the “Add” button.

    Thanks Alex and Olaf!

  4. Warren — January 20, 2011 #

    I use AdBlock Plus on Firefox; I was able to block Meebo entirely just by going into its preferences (from the “ABP” menu icon in the lower-right corner of the browser frame), selecting “Preferences…”, clicking “Add filter…” and entering

    *.meebo.com

    then clicking OK. Didn’t need the HTTP prefix, and wow, is it nice to live without Meebo.

    What I do not understand is how any web administrator could be suckered into using it in the first place. It’s like Flash – it’s everywhere, and it’s worthless.

  5. Nobody — March 21, 2011 #

    March21, 2011

    ||meebocdn.net

  6. Ronandfez — May 8, 2011 #

    Thanks very much, Alex, for eliminating another piece of uninvited intrusive shyte from my life.

  7. joe k — September 3, 2011 #

    I love you man!

  8. Classical Values » Death to Meebo! — November 30, 2011 #

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