Re: Revenge on the Nerds -Maureen on a rampage

17 Dec 2003

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In <199801220537.XAA00871@manifold.algebra.com>, on 01/21/98 
   at 11:37 PM, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) said:
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
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Speaking of browsers: I'd rather *pay* for a browser that has such an obvious
feature as a list of URL regexps that you don't want to browse. Neither IE
nor Netscape has it. I don't know about Lynx.  I'm now using junkbuster
from www.junkbuster.com (highly recommended) to filter out ads and banners
and cookies. I generally think WWW sucks; but if I use it, I want to be able
to tell the browser that if the page tried to load an image from a URL
that looks like
valueclick.com
bannermall.com
adforce.*.com/
bannerweb.com
eads.com/
/*/sponsors/*.gif
*banner*.gif
/image/ads/
etc etc, I want the browse to ignore this request. Clearly Microsoft and
Netscape both don't give a damn about the desires of their NON-PAYING users
and would rather bend over for the advertisers.
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I suggest writing a proxy server that does such filtering, running it on 
the local machine, and using it as proxy server from your netscape
browser.
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There is a proxy server in form of a 20 line perl script, you can take it
and modify it.
I *highly* recomed taking a look at: http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/

If I can't view a website using Lynx 99.9% of the time it's not worth the
effort of the DL.

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