Post by thread:[OT]: Popup / malicious HTML & script blocking

Having noticed the number of people that mention things about popup adds, and new features of Mozilla killing such things etc, I thought I'd mention that there is an easier solution. http://www.sankey.ws/proxomitron.html There may be a later version available, but I don't know where it is. Just one note about using this program. It requires an awful lot of processing power for a short while every time you load a page. I wouldn't recommend using this on anything less than a P2-400. I haven't seen a Linux variant, but that doesn't prove that someone hasn't duplicated the program for Linux. I'm honestly surprised at the number of programs out there that will close windows for you etc. I don't know why you would bother going to that much trouble when there is a far simpler solution. This simply removes or alters the code which creates whatever you're trying to get rid of. By default, all adds are reduced to [Ad] in a fairly small font. and popups don't. This will also freeze GIF animations if you want. The program operates as a local proxy server (on port 8080 by default, but that is changeable). Any web browser that you tell to use it will stop getting the majority of the junk. The one exception there is a webserver that assembles adds into its page at the server. --Brendan -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email spam_OUTlistservTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

The proper Linux version of this is not necessary, because it's been around for a long time. It's called a caching web proxy and everyone is using one or several variants thereof, me too. Unwanted sites are simply firewalled out in bulk or on a url-by-url basis (using regular expressions). If that is not enough then I program the firewall to simply block all adspamming addresses. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads