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.
In the /usr/share/doc/junkbuster directory there are scripts called
cron.monthly and cron.weekly. Run these to update your blocklist (i.e. "sh
cron.monthly") from the massive, comprehensive blocklist!
Ad-free browsing is so nice:)
Scott
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