On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 09:12:07 +0100 Edward Bartolo via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> Dear All, > > Lately, I am noticing Waterfox has lost the ability to display my > add-ons, which are AdGuard AdBlocker and NoScript. I had about two > more in the past, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to have > any that work. My preferences are an ad-free internet experience, or > at least, if not entirely ad-free, with intrusive adds blocked, and a > font rendering with a large than normal font size. The latter, is > provided by Waterfox itself, but adds are favoured to intrude and > steal bandwidth and processing power which I do not have much of. > > I would like to ask whether a software proxy running on the same > machine would be able to provide adequate ad filtering. I thinkthis is an benefit of the package called squid, which has been in repositries sinve Linux V0.? or similar. It is basically a web cache oroxy and if I remember it correctly, it would also replace the block of an add with a 'squid' block. Vague because I haven't used it since our link was a dial-up lin and we had something doing that at the times. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
