Ask HN: How to turn off auto-refresh on techcrunch?

Posted by expertcs on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @04:16AM
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Lately, techcrunch has added auto-refresh on their website. I understand it must be for increasing pageviews, however, I simply hate it. Can someone help me on how to turn it completely off?

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Re:Ask HN: How to turn off auto-refresh on techcrunch? by maushu on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @06:32AM (#1554025)

When sites try to increase pageviews artificially it pisses me off.

They could've easily implemented a ajax solution to update only the headers section of the site.

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Re:Ask HN: How to turn off auto-refresh on techcrunch? by aj on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @06:03AM (#1553991)

If you're using Firefox, there is an option under "Tools->Options->Advanced Tab->Accessibility" - Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload web pages

You could use that I think. I've not tried it (and I don't want to visit TC)

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Re:Ask HN: How to turn off auto-refresh on techcrunch? by staunch on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @06:26PM (#1555892)

You might be able to get it turned off for all of us if you're willing to contact their advertising networks and tell them about it :-)

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Re:Ask HN: How to turn off auto-refresh on techcrunch? by colonelxc on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @05:40AM (#1553962)

This caught my eye in the source: setTimeout('location.reload(true)',1200000);

The simplest way is to disable javascript.

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Re:Ask HN: How to turn off auto-refresh on techcrunch? by i386 on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @05:58AM (#1553984)

Or use their RSS/ATOM feed.

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Re:Ask HN: How to turn off auto-refresh on techcrunch? by jacquesm on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @04:20AM (#1553872)

How about a greasemonkey script ?

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