Re: Web banner blocker
On Monday 10 September 2001 02:53 am, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0400, Jason Boxman (jasonb@edseek.com)
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.
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