I got annoyed tonight at reading Fark in Google Reader. When I see an article I'm interested in, I have to click on the link in Reader to open up the comments page in Fark and then click on the image to get to the linked story. So I hacked something together in Greasemonkey (and hack is the key word there) that takes me straight to the story (although going through Fark's redirection server so they still have an idea how many people are clicking on the stories...ok, I was lazy and didn't feel like figuring out how to get the actual story URL from somewhere on Fark). I put it up at web.mit.edu/rradez/www/software/greader-skip-landing.user.js.
The filename and description reflects the fact that I'm probably going to get annoyed by another feed that does this type of landing page thing and redirect that too.
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Awesome!
It works great, thanks!
Hey, thanks for the script. I leveraged it as a framework for a whole bunch of google reader mods. Glad you shared it with us!
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