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

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@invweb.net>
To: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Message Hash: f73a9f5e03ee8b0cac48dce303f50d68e3608eb4b994b4ab9ff38d8e5e468146
Message ID: <199801220610.BAA28611@users.invweb.net>
Reply To: <199801220537.XAA00871@manifold.algebra.com>
UTC Datetime: 1998-01-22 06:05:12 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 14:05:12 +0800

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 14:05:12 +0800
To: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Subject: Re: Revenge on the Nerds  -Maureen on a rampage
In-Reply-To: <199801220537.XAA00871@manifold.algebra.com>
Message-ID: <199801220610.BAA28611@users.invweb.net>
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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:

>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.

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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