Clicking and waiting is just as annoying on search site as it is on those sites themselves. In preparing the latest version, our allstar developer was looking up some documentation on FilesTube and it irritated him.
So he wrote the latest addition to our growing family of skippers, and thanks to our new self-hosted version it’s coming to you in record time!
Over the summer we worked with the author of the infamous Greasemonkey script to make Megaupload anti-CAPTCHA technology a part of Skipscreen. That feature is now in the latest release of Skipscreen, which you can download here.
This feature is awesome in two ways.
The feature was too-hot-to-handle for Mozilla’s addon directory, so we backed off. But now we’re self-hosting our own version, in part to make it easier to do rapid updates for our arms race with Mediafire. So we figured it was only right to bring back the anti-captcha!
Note: you have to get the self-hosted version (download it from Skipscreen.com not from AMO) to get the anti-CAPTCHA code.
It was a long wait, but the latest SkipScreen release just got approved in the Mozilla Addons queue! It features new stuff like:
We are so psyched to finally get this out the door. The one drawback is that the Mediafire fix in the current beta didn’t make it in there. If you use Mediafire a lot, get the latest version of Skipscreen to avoid annoying and redundant clicks!
To better keep up with future Mediafire changes, we’ll soon be offering our own self-hosted version of Skipscreen that will have more frequent updates and a very special feature that got rejected by AMO over the summer (no joke!).
Mozilla has said they won’t cave to Mediafire’s takedown request. This is so the right answer, and it’s what we expected from an organization as dedicated to defending the web as Mozilla (we just got a bit of a fright for a second there 
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It’s also comforting that a second group of lawyers from an established organization (one with a lot more on the line than us) have looked into Mediafire’s cease and desist and consider it toothless.
Mediafire still could come after us directly. But I think with the press they’ve already generated, they’re realizing that the more they come after us, the more people will hear about Skipscreen, and love it. (Which also suggests a plan: the best way to defend Skipscreen is for all our supporters to spread the word in as many places as they can).
It’s a good day for Firefox extensions that push hard to put you in control of the web.
P.S. Thanks Jennifer Granick, Fred von Lohmann, Eva Galperin and everybody at EFF. You all are stars.
Mozilla has told us they received a takedown from Mediafire, demanding they pull SkipScreen from addons.mozilla.org.
Mozilla gave us about 24 hours (until the end of the west-coast business day today) to respond to some questions about what SkipScreen does, or they said they would remove it from the directory. We’re working on this.
More news soon. In the meantime, read the takedown.
Update: The EFF wrote our reply to Mozilla, and sent it on our behalf. I think it’s fair to say they think Mediafire’s claims are off-the-wall. Read the reply.
Meanwhile, in anticipation of a Mozilla takedown, furtive copies of SkipScreen began appearing on Mediafire 
Another Update: EFF’s Fred von Lohmann has posted a legal analysis explaining why Mediafire’s claims are bogus and putting this in the context of a long running battle (one it’s important the public win). Yet again, the EFF rules.
Final Update: Skipscreen safe, for now!
Nie wieder auf Downloads warten mit Skipscreen: nervende Warteseiten
auf Sites wie RapidShare, MegaUpload, MediaFire, zShare usw. werden
einfach übersprungen. Jetzt ausprobieren!
Skipscreen funktioniert mit den folgenden Sites: RapidShare,
MegaUpload, MediaFire, Uploaded.to, Sharebee, Depositfiles, zShare,
Divshare, Sendspace – und es werden laufend mehr.
Hier findest Du eine Demonstration von Skipscreen (englisch).
So, for people who are getting that scary message, Skipscreen isn’t malware and you can keep using it. But, skipscreen.com got hacked in some mild way (possibly through some script we were running) and had some malicious javascript put on it.
We’re fixing it now, and the warning should disappear soon (although I hear it can sometimes take a few days. Ugh.)
Hey everybody. This latest release has been a series of trials, which is now compounded by a big, annoying mistake on our part.
For your hotfile problems, get the fix here.
We’ve been working on hotfile.com support, which has been heavily requested by you all. But we didn’t finish it in time for this release. The problem is, we included the non-working hotfile code, so when you install the latest SkipScreen, hotfile will break.
We’ve uploaded a new fixed version which you can get here. Hopefully Mozilla will approve this quickly. Sorry for such a boneheaded error… we have a testing process and a great team of beta testers, but we didn’t test this “feature” because we didn’t know was there 
Once again, the hotfile fix can be downloaded here. Just grab the latest version. Note: this doesn’t give you hotfile support, it just keeps SkipScreen from mucking up your hotfile download.
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