Remove Elements Permanently From A Website

RIP – Remove It Permanently – is a Firefox add-on that adds options to remove elements on websites permanently. Elements can be pretty much anything from headers, images, advertisement, forms to flash content. Want Google without the Google logo? Digg without advertisement and user comments? RIP can do that for you and much more.

Two new right-click entries appear after installing the add-on for Firefox, which currently does not support Firefox 3.01 but can be forced to be compatible. The first entry, Remove This Permanently, removes the selected element from the current page. If you remove the Google logo from a search it will still appear on a different search. This method is pretty good for quickly removing elements on a website that you visit regularly and that does not have changing addresses.

The second entry Rip Advanced offers advanced features that make it possible to remove elements from a single page, all similar pages, the website and the full domain. That’s not all however. You can also remove all similar items in one go, remove the parent element, all parent elements, all frames and Google Adsense.

A few remarks about the process: It’s pretty difficulty to remove flash elements from a website because you cannot right-click in the elements. They display a different menu. This means you have to click close to them and hope that Rip picks them as the default element that should be removed. A red border appears around the element that would get removed which is a good visual aid.

Elements that are removed do still get downloaded and appear in the cache. This is therefor no method to save bandwidth.

The primary use for Rip would be to remove nerve wrecking elements from websites that you visit regularly. Before you start now and remove advertisements from my website I ask you to consider this before you do it. They pay my bills. If everyone would remove them I would not be able to maintain that blog. And they pay for every pageview. This is also a tip for every Adblock user who is visiting my site. If you want to support me disable Adblock on my website. I do not have popups, layer ads or any other disturbing ads of that kind on my pages. It would help me tremendously on the other hand.

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13 Responses to “Remove Elements Permanently From A Website”

1. Transcontinental says:

   August 14, 2008 at 7:30 pm

   I have always used another “permanent” cleaner, extension called ‘Web Personal Cleaner’ (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4644), which is called from its status bar icon and works by catching frames, thus enabling removal of flash elements. Excellent.
2. ^-^ says:

   August 14, 2008 at 8:01 pm

   looks to be just like the content blocker in opera
3. archer says:

   August 14, 2008 at 8:03 pm

   thanks, martin. i used to use this constantly, then they stopped updating to keep up with firefox updates and i dropped it and forgot it. i’m so glad this one is back. love it.
4. -=Ben=- says:

   August 14, 2008 at 8:45 pm

   I just use Adblock Plus. It supports flash and tons others.
   With the Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper you can immediately select what to block.
5. darkkosmos says:

   August 14, 2008 at 9:24 pm

   I agree with ben
6. NoDaddy says:

   December 26, 2008 at 12:40 pm

   years later.. and still the RIP editor sucks… the context menu often causes the page to wildly scroll to the bottom

   but otherwise very useful where adblock plus is lacking xpath support

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   August 14, 2008 at 10:14 pm

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   August 16, 2008 at 1:14 am

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