aru Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 prometheus Frequent user Joined: 04 May 2002 Posts: 66 Location: Canada Post Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 4:20 am Post subject: Ads ....how to get rid of them. _________________________________________________________________ ok,if u guys r sick of getting the ads load on each page ,i recommend using junkbuster,it is a small program that runs as a proxy server on the local machine and it filters out all the ads ,it doesnt load the image ads,and it blocks cookies..u can always get the latest imagefile,blockfile from www.junkbuster.com and u just follow the links from there... now,by default ,when junkbuster catches an image that is an ad ,it doesnt load it but it puts a 1 pixel image instead,u can change that to make it show "JunkBuster" by setting the tinygif to number 2 in /etc/junkbuster/config now after u get it installed and getting the latest files,it will run on port 8000 by default so u will need to setup yr browser to use proxy and put for http://127.0.0.1 and for Port: 8000 and that's it (leave https,ftp,gopher....empty),but some sites wont load correctly (like hotmail and yahoo) cause it blocks the cookies,so u can just turn the proxy off when u check yr hotmail/yahoo account... Tristan Frequent user Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 74 Location: Melbourne, Australia Post Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 5:27 am Post subject: _________________________________________________________________ I use webwasher (www.webwasher.com). It's not open source but it's a free download, does the same job as junkbuster/proximitron, and has a nice web interface for administration. Be warned, Opera does not play too nicely with web filtering proxies, and often stall when loading a page. Glitz Senior user Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 507 Location: The Great White North Post Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 4:45 pm Post subject: _________________________________________________________________ I use Galeon and turn off popups and cookies. That's fine for what I need. If an advertisement just appears somewhere on a page I'm reading I don't particularly care. Glitz. Bluebeard Senior user Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 386 Post Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 7:53 pm Post subject: _________________________________________________________________ Junkbuster has been superceded by Privoxy from the the same folks. Look it up here: http://www.privoxy.org/ . Bluebeard. prometheus Frequent user Joined: 04 May 2002 Posts: 66 Location: Canada Post Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2002 1:18 am Post subject: _________________________________________________________________ cool,yea privoxy is easier to configure...i downloaded it and i'm using it now,it even shows u statistics of the ads that have been blocked... thanks. Editor's note: This thread was originally posted at the old MUB (Mandrake User Board at club-nihil). This post is the result of a 99% automatic backup, so due to its nature some text may be lost (improbable but possible). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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