Re: Webwasher alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [010910 15:43]: What other webwasher type proxies are there out there? I have a strong preference for free software. I've never used webwasher, but I know of a program called filterproxy; might it work for what you seek? Package: filterproxy Priority:

Re: Webwasher alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-11 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 10 September 2001 08:15 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:29:05PM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 06:13 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: snip Some, but relatively few. My own policy is: - I don't like animated

Re: Webwasher alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-11 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:48:32 EDT, Jason Boxman writes: ... As far as tracking your surfing, I'm chatting with a guy who's pointed me to a site that gets direct logs from ISPs, on claim was they had about 35% of the market in their service area. Ties full demographics (they've got your ISP)

bad adverts (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-11 Thread Wendell Cochran
Karsten M. Self wrote: My PoV isn't that all advertising is evil (though the vast majority is), but that *evil* advertising is evil. Much advertising nowadays meets the definition of _spam_. Advertising can sell. Alas, most Web advertising UNsells.

RE: Web banner blocker

2001-09-11 Thread Wayne Brown
PROTECTED] Sent: 09 September 2001 20:42 To: Debian Users Subject: Web banner blocker Hi, I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( Can anyone recommend a good

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:40 pm, Ross Burton wrote: Hi, Ross: I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( Can anyone recommend a good banner blocker?

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:09:14 EDT, Jason Boxman writes: On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:40 pm, Ross Burton wrote: I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-(

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 10 September 2001 02:24 am, Robert Waldner wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:09:14 EDT, Jason Boxman writes: On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:40 pm, Ross Burton wrote: I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball,

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 02:24 am, Robert Waldner wrote: ... I use junkbuster, not quit as extensive as webwasher, but Free as in speech. I just set up junkbuster to listen on :8080 and forward

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Michaƫl
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:24:16 +0200 Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use junkbuster, not quit as extensive as webwasher, but Free as in speech. I just set up junkbuster to listen on :8080 and forward everything to squid on :8088. Junkbuster works great, except it doesn't support

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, Against all of the cries of use Junkbuster I went with ad-zap as it does exactly what I want - hooks into Squid (which I had already installed) and is small/fast/light, as is HTTP/1.1 compliant. I'll dig out the URL when I get home if anyone is interested. Regards, Ross

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 10 September 2001 02:53 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 02:24 am, Robert Waldner wrote: ... I use junkbuster, not quit as extensive as webwasher, but Free as in speech.

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 10 September 2001 03:59 am, Ross Burton wrote: Hi, Ross: Against all of the cries of use Junkbuster I went with ad-zap as it does exactly what I want - hooks into Squid (which I had already installed) and is small/fast/light, as is HTTP/1.1 compliant. Cool. I doubt much Squid

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:36:10PM +0200, Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-(

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:10:57AM +0200, Michal Parienti wrote: Junkbuster works great, except it doesn't support version 1.1 of the HTTP protocol. If we could find the same features, with the support of HTTP 1.1, in GPL, it would be perfect... The FAQ for wwwoffle says that it has the

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Scott_Patterson
On Monday 10 September 2001 02:24 am, Robert Waldner wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:09:14 EDT, Jason Boxman writes: On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:40 pm, Ross Burton wrote: I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid +

Re: Building a better blockfile (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-10 Thread Scott_Patterson
on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:40:32PM +0100, Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: Hi, =20 I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( =20 Can anyone

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Sam Varghese wrote: junkbuster is probably the program you need. i've been using junkbuster for some time now and it is extremely effective. you can apt-get it, get a good acl file and edit your config file. there is a good link from the junkbuster site to some ACLs

Re: Building a better blockfile (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-10 Thread Scott_Patterson
Oops...forgot to mention explicitly that you can specify the blockfile/config to use for junkbuster. That's how this method would work. on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:40:32PM +0100, Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: Hi, =20 I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian

junkbuster (Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-10 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:44:05 EDT, Jason Boxman writes: Yeah, I used to use junkbuster extensively. But I found that everytime I went to a new site, I was nailed with ads and needed to add yet-another-entry to the block list. If a massively comprehensive blocklist was available somewhere (and

Re: Building a better blockfile (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:52:36AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:40:32PM +0100, Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED] Is anyone familiar with a program that allows per-user, multi-client, blockfile

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:03:19AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 02:53 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You're aware that JB does regexp blocking? A few well-placed

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:05:32AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 03:59 am, Ross Burton wrote: Hi, Ross: Against all of the cries of use Junkbuster I went with ad-zap as it does exactly what I want - hooks into Squid (which I had already

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 08:59:42AM -0600, Rick Macdonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Sam Varghese wrote: junkbuster is probably the program you need. i've been using junkbuster for some time now and it is extremely effective. you can apt-get it, get a good acl

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 10 September 2001 03:39 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:03:19AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 02:53 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Webwasher alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:11:27PM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 03:39 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:03:19AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 02:53 am, Karsten M. Self wrote:

Re: Webwasher alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-10 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 10 September 2001 06:13 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: snip Some, but relatively few. My own policy is: - I don't like animated ads: handled with animation settings in Galeon. - I don't like Java/Javascript ads: disable both. - I don't like ad demographics aggregatorss:

Re: Webwasher alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:29:05PM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 06:13 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: snip Some, but relatively few. My own policy is: - I don't like animated ads: handled with animation settings in Galeon. - I don't like

Web banner blocker

2001-09-09 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( Can anyone recommend a good banner blocker? I don't want entire pages blocked so SquidGuard is an overkill, but

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-09 Thread iehrenwald
On 9 Sep 2001, Ross Burton wrote: I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian 'apt-get install junkbuster' and install the cron files in /usr/share/doc/junkbuster/examples Then read /usr/share/doc/junkbuster/squid.txt

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-09 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( Can anyone recommend a good banner blocker? I don't want entire pages

Building a better blockfile (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:40:32PM +0100, Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( Can anyone recommend a

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:40:32PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( Can anyone recommend a good banner blocker?