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

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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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jacquesm
How about a greasemonkey script ?
colonelxc
This caught my eye in the source: setTimeout('location.reload(true)',1200000);

The simplest way is to disable javascript.

i386
Or use their RSS/ATOM feed.
aj
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)

maushu
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.

staunch
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 :-)