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To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
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UTC Datetime: 1998-01-22 09:07:06 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:07:06 +0800
From: phelix@vallnet.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:07:06 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: Revenge on the Nerds -Maureen on a rampage
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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 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.
>
>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
-- Phelix
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