Re: Revenge on the Nerds -Maureen on a rampage

[dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)]

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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