Re: Ad removing proxies
At 1032452681s since epoch (09/19/02 06:24:41 -0400 UTC), Andrew Pritchard wrote:
> I've decided that I'm bored of waiting for the latest and greatest ad to
> come down doubleclick's apparently slow link.
(snip)
> What are people's impressions/evaluations of these [proxies]? Is
> there a better one I've missed?
I use squid, which may be overkill for a single machine (I use it for
a small network). It's a very good proxy, and highly configurable
(though this means that it takes a little while to set up).
Tied into squid I have adZap:
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/adzap/
Which is basically a giant blacklist of URLs that squid blocks ads
from. It works very well (IMHO), and there's a cron job included to
automagically get the latest ad blocking URLs once a week. It blocks
images, javascript, flash, and java ads, and replaces them with either
a blank space, or a message that says "This Ad Zapped". Very nice.
I don't know much about the other proxies; you might be able to get
adZap to work with them as well if you don't need the overhead of squid.
If you want to try that approach, I can share configs if you run into
trouble.
Jason
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Jason Healy
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