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1998-01-22 - Re: Revenge on the Nerds -Maureen on a rampage

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 236e080659fa51096fba47807ade85513babd2b30d52c5c2bb44234276d87a2b
Message ID: <LZmPJe25w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Reply To: <34c704c2.971366@128.2.84.191>
UTC Datetime: 1998-01-22 17:09:47 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 01:09:47 +0800

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 01:09:47 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Revenge on the Nerds  -Maureen on a rampage
In-Reply-To: <34c704c2.971366@128.2.84.191>
Message-ID: <LZmPJe25w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
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phelix@vallnet.com writes:

> On 22 Jan 1998 02:22:29 -0600, ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> >> Speaking of browsers: I'd rather *pay* for a browser that has such an obvi
> >> 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 ab
> >> 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 user
> >> and would rather bend over for the advertisers.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >There is a proxy server in form of a 20 line perl script, you
> >can take it and modify it.
> >
> >	- Igor.
>
> If you have a unix box, try using the roxen web/proxy server.  It has a
> regexp module that does exactly this. http://www.roxen.com

Thanks guys!! I'm now using the junkbusters proxy servers for this very
purpose.  It works fine.  I just think that this should be a function of
any decent browser, without requiring the extra overhead of a proxy server.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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