On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 08:25:18 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 29 August 2017 08:53:16 GMT+02:00, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 05:41:53AM +0000, J. Roeleveld wrote > > > >> Look into proxy servers. > >> I think privoxy should be able to do the trick. > >> > > Looking at the /usr/portage/net-proxy directory, I see several proxy > > > >programs. I checked the privoxy man page at linux.die.net and it > >mentions that some features are not available under https. Is this a > >privoxy limit, or is it a limitation of proxies in general? > > > > Is "tinyproxy" noticeably simpler than privoxy? My main requirement > > > >is to block a list of domains. Is it possible for a proxy to edit a > >webpage on-the-fly, so that references to unwanted URLs are stripped > >out, and the browser doesn't waste time trying to download from a > >blocked adserver? > > Checked the FAQ, blocking by host pattern will work. Blocking by content of > the page will not. > > For blocking ads, this will be sufficient. > If you want to block pages because it mentions cats or other suspicious > words, https will not work as the data is encrypted. > > -- > Joost
It may be worth trying ublock origin addon for Firefox and on Chromium in addition try ublock origin extra. They have made a difference here. -- Regards, Mick
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