Re: Web banner blocker
On Monday 10 September 2001 02:24 am, Robert Waldner wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:09:14 EDT, Jason Boxman writes:
> >On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:40 pm, Ross Burton wrote:
> >> I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian
> >> unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball
> >> hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-(
> >>
> >> Can anyone recommend a good banner blocker? I don't want entire pages
> >> blocked so SquidGuard is an overkill, but the banner adverts removed.
> >
> >I've been using WebWasher for Linux. Yeah, it's only free as in beer, but
> > it does filtering in a fashion that works for me. It'll auto expire
> > cookies you don't want after a specified period of time, filter web bugs,
> > kill annoying JavaScript, like onLoad and onUnLoad (and popups), and
> > filters ads based on image dimension. Yeah, sometimes you get false
> > positives, but I find it pretty rare that such a thing happens.
>
> 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. 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.
To each his own, though. :)
> cheers,
> &rw
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