on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 10 September 2001 02:24 am, Robert Waldner wrote:
<...> > > I use junkbuster, not quit as extensive as webwasher, but Free as in > > speech. I just set up junkbuster to listen on :8080 and forward > > everything to squid on :8088. > > > > http://www.junkbuster.com/ > > Yeah, I used to use junkbuster extensively. But I found that > everytime I went to a new site, I was nailed with ads and needed to > add yet-another-entry to the block list. You're aware that JB does regexp blocking? A few well-placed expressions, largely variations on /ad/, /Ad/, and /advert/, you can do a lot of damage. I've a list of 50 patterns which keeps banners to a minimum. Deselecting Java/Javascript, and de-animating GIFs, helps a lot too. > If a massively comprehensive blocklist was available somewhere (and I > was using one of those with like 500 entries from somewhere) then > maybe it wouldn't be that big of an issue. Last time I used JB it > lacked any form of JS filtering as well. I can do that in Konq, but > that's on a site-by-site basis. Note too that JB isn't a webwasher, it's a site blocker. Webwasher actually rewrites HTML before it gets to your browser. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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