On Monday 10 September 2001 02:53 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > 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.
Yeah, but regexp was never really my thing. I'd spend five minutes playing with a rule and reloading the page until the ad died. Some places I go require JavaScript to be on. Never found much use for Java though. > > 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. That's true. But I'm happy with that behavior. :) > Cheers.
