I block only in my DNS. I think it's the most important feature of my home network. Not only because it blocks ads, but also because it block fads.
On 11/20/12, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Greetings comrades, > > I have been thinking of adding some easy way of adblocking to surf. My > conclusion is, that it is not needed. > > By changing the default parameters of surf to »‐ips«, which will disable > all the scripts, the images and plugins by default, nothing wrong is > loaded when some URI is opened. Then, based on what I want to see I en‐ > able first images and then scripts and then maybe plugins. > > The only annoying part in this algorithm is that when scripts and images > are enabled all ads are viewable and this can be filtered with complex > solutions like adblock plus or some hosts filtering. Hosts filtering re‐ > quires some callback to filter on a specific hosts file with >15k > lines on every request. This could be optimized using better data > structures, but still, the complexity is high. > > Such a feature would only be useful when you have to save on bandwith > but need for a specific website all features enabled. I don’t really see > enough benefit to justify some big callback communication for > javascript loading and such, like a full adblock plus compatibility > would require. > > What are you comrades thinking of this? > > > Sincerely, > > Christoph Lohmann > > >
