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: 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 r

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: "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 yo

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

2001-09-10 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: > > > > > > > Some, but relatively few. My own policy is: > > > > > > - I don't like

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: > > > > > Some, but relatively few. My own policy is: > > > > - I don't like animated ads: handled with animation settings in Galeon. > > - I don't

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: > > 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: handl

"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 wrot

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]) >

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

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

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-plac

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, > >blockfil

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 (

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 D

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

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 >> Ca

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: 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 th

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 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 Squi

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 >

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 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 supp

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 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 + Sleeze

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 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 bloc

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 blo

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 recommen

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 > p

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

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 t