Viewing Hidden Comments on MySpace – revisited

Posted by taoski | Filed under Web

One of the most popular posts here on Geeklimit is the excellent “” by Atariboy and therefore I thought it deserved a re-visit.
The process detailled in the previous post involve disabling the CSS stylesheet via the browser menus, but I have found an easier method!

It basically does the same thing, but is actioned from a shortcut which can be placed on the “links bar” in either Internet Explorer or Firefox. I have tested it in Safari but it does not function and would be interested to hear if it works on other browsers too.
Drag the following link to the Links bar in your browser and just click it to disable the CSS stylesheet of the page you are viewing!

Clear

To get the proper page back, all you will need to do is a refresh. Press F5 on your keyboard or press the relevant “refresh” icon on the browser toolbar.

Comments (16) | August 6th, 2006

16 Responses to “Viewing Hidden Comments on MySpace – revisited”

  1. Semage Says:
    August 7, 2006 at 1:00 am

    Wow. I never would have thought of this. This will save me about five hours per day browsing my friends’ pages on myspace.

    Danke.

  2. pharmakon Says:
    August 11, 2006 at 12:04 am

    doesnt work with mine for some reason..
    the css is cleared, but the comments are still hidden O_0
    maybe because mine is changed so that the profile is in one column and everything under who i’d like to meet is hidden??

  3. amy Says:
    August 14, 2006 at 2:13 pm

    i don’t understand…
    what link are we dragging??

  4. taoski Says:
    August 14, 2006 at 5:00 pm

    The one that says “Clear CSS”.

  5. angelique Says:
    August 15, 2006 at 10:03 pm

    umm how do you worrk this.

    can some one help me ..

  6. Semage Says:
    August 16, 2006 at 10:11 am

    Drag the blue text at the end of this comment that says “Clear CSS” to your tool bar and drop it as a button on your tool bar or “links” list if you are using IE.

    Alternatively, you can just rightclick the text and select “add to bookmarks” or “add to favorites”.

    Anytime you need to clear embeded CSS on a page, simply click the button or bookmark.

    Here’s the link: Clear CSS

  7. Andrew Says:
    August 17, 2006 at 5:41 am

    Nice addition Tao :)

  8. krista Says:
    August 17, 2006 at 10:34 am

    for me it says “Error 404 – Not Found
    Search bar and other tools go here! If you’re reading this, it needs to be implemented, remind me!
    “

  9. Semage Says:
    August 17, 2006 at 10:38 am

    It worked. You stripped the embedded CSS from this page an screwed up the layout. Now try it on a different site like your own blog or myspace.

  10. krista Says:
    August 17, 2006 at 11:58 am

    i think im doing this wrong im really confused. i saved the site to my favorites and i went to myspace and then clicked the link in my favorites and it brought me to this website and said what i wrote above. then i refresh it and it still says it. i tried it with multiple myspaces too

  11. Semage Says:
    August 17, 2006 at 12:17 pm

    Click “Favorites” on your toolbar, find the link, right click, select Properties, and manualy paste the link target in as the URL. I am assuming that IE is adding it as a relative link trailing the address of this page. So you can just fix it yourself.

  12. taoski Says:
    August 17, 2006 at 3:19 pm

    Just updated the post to make the link more clear – and to get rid of those crappy screenshots!

    The link was getting itself confused with our autolinking code…..

    Just drag the blue word “clear” to your links bar or right click it, choose copy link location, make a new favorite and then paste the code in.

  13. Palomino Says:
    August 19, 2006 at 7:22 pm

    For some of you who are having problem with Viewing Comments, Viewing Blogs and Viewing Friends; the reason for not getting the correct result was due to the following reason;

    1. If a myspace user has no permission or not included in their friends list, you will always get an error. Otherwise if you are approved as a friend originally and never been deleted, you should be able to view anything from that Myspace users’ account.

    2. Correct Syntax

    http://comments.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.HomeComments&friendID=

    3.It doesn’t hurt to login to your Myspace Account before doing anything.

    I hope this helps.

  14. angie Says:
    August 28, 2006 at 1:51 pm

    it dosen’t work anymore. the only thing you can view now on private profiles is the friends list. the loophole has been closed until someone else finds out how to open it back up

  15. s Says:
    August 29, 2006 at 11:06 pm

    how do u even view friends list? It wont let me view anything at all on private profiles

  16. The Technocrat Says:
    September 18, 2006 at 12:28 pm

    Before commenting, please see the following notice regarding our method of viewing private info on MySpace:

    http://geeklimit.com/2006/09/18/how-not-to-view-myspace-comments/