Remove the most popular tag from the title using JavaScript

Question

So, I see that SO has moved to put the most popular tag in the beginning of the <title> to fight site scrapers. But, this is harmful to User Experience. With browsers like Google Chrome, all I can see is the first few characters of the title, and it becomes annoying to try to find the right tab.

So, my request: Can you remove the tag from the <title> using JavaScript? Crawlers will still see the SEO-friendly <title>, and users won't have their user experience hampered by it. We all win.

Answer 1

While SOIS might not want to do it, we, as the user, can. And the script is absolutely ridiculously simple - so simple that I'm surprised nobody has posted it yet.

// ==UserScript==
// @name          Stack Exchange Title Tag Remover
// @namespace     yijiang
// @include       http://stackoverflow.com/questions/*
// @include       http://superuser.com/questions/*
// @include       http://serverfault.com/questions/*
// @include       http://askubuntu.com/questions/*
// @include       http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/*
// @include       http://nothingtoinstall.com/questions/*
// @include       http://seasonedadvice.com/questions/*
// @include       http://crossvalidated.com/questions/*
// @include       http://stackapps.com/questions/*
// @include       http://*.stackexchange.com/questions/*
// @include       https://stackoverflow.com/questions/*
// @include       https://superuser.com/questions/*
// @include       https://serverfault.com/questions/*
// @include       https://askubuntu.com/questions/*
// @include       https://answers.onstartups.com/questions/*
// @include       https://nothingtoinstall.com/questions/*
// @include       https://seasonedadvice.com/questions/*
// @include       https://crossvalidated.com/questions/*
// @include       https://stackapps.com/questions/*
// @include       https://*.stackexchange.com/questions/*
// ==/UserScript==

if(!isNaN(parseInt(window.location.pathname.split('/')[2]), 10)){
    var title = document.getElementsByTagName('h1')[0];
    title = title.innerText || title.textContent;
    document.title = title + document.title.substring(document.title.lastIndexOf('-') - 1);
}

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However, because of the fact that userscripts can only run after the page has loaded the tags will still appear for a fraction of a second after the page starts loading.

Edit: Meta sites now removed because they won't have this "feature" according to Jeff Atwood

Answer 2

I don't know - Google frowns on that kind of thing (showing a different visual presentation to the user vs the search engine). It could have severe adverse consequences.