Re: [dev] [surf] More convenience

2012-11-20 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:54:01 +0100 Hiltjo Posthuma hil...@codemadness.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: Anyone has done the wget/curl scripts together to handle referer, cook‐ ies and whatever else is needed to fool websites, so

[dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Christoph Lohmann
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

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Eckehard Berns
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 01:27:39PM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote: I have been thinking of adding some easy way of adblocking to surf. My conclusion is, that it is not needed. [...] What are you comrades thinking of this? I don't need adblocking inside the browser. I'm using a hosts file

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread hiro
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

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Andrew Hills
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: Hosts filtering re‐ quires some callback to filter on a specific hosts file with 15k lines on every request. Would it be possible to disable requests made by the page to any address outside the page's domain?

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread hiro
I want web pages and pdfs to be rendered in the cloud, because my fan is running hot. also never forget: if most web sites suck, use less web sites. sorry if you consider this off-topic.

[dev] [dwm] Return key keybind problem

2012-11-20 Thread Igor Blažević
Hello, I have problems with return key in configuration but haven't found anyone with similar problem. I tried default combinations and also custom one but the problem remains. The problem is that, although key combinations with return key like Mod-Shift-Return or Mod-Return work for a few minutes

Re: [dev] [dwm] Return key keybind problem

2012-11-20 Thread hiro
does everyone write his mail in openoffice nowadays?

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Nick
Yeah, I agree with the general feeling that adblocking shouldn't be done in the browser. I prefer privoxy, though it's rather complex. adsuck is another thing that probably does the job well. /etc/hosts can do a reasonable job too, as others have mentioned. Also, there is the fact that adblocking

Re: [dev] [dwm] Return key keybind problem

2012-11-20 Thread Igor Blažević
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:53 PM, hiro 23h...@gmail.com wrote: does everyone write his mail in openoffice nowadays? How did you come up with that conclusion?

Re: [dev] [dwm] Return key keybind problem

2012-11-20 Thread Nick
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:20:31PM +0100, Igor Blažević wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:53 PM, hiro 23h...@gmail.com wrote: does everyone write his mail in openoffice nowadays? How did you come up with that conclusion? The HTML email you're sending, no doubt.

Re: [dev] [dwm] Return key keybind problem

2012-11-20 Thread Andrew Hills
Sorry, I wrote it from gmail, not from within MUA since I cannot do that momentarily. Does it create any problems for others? When you write from GMail, please click the « Plain Text button under the formatting bar. --Andrew Hills

Re: [dev] [dwm] Return key keybind problem

2012-11-20 Thread Jakub Lach
Dnia 20 listopada 2012 15:26 Igor Blažević ibla...@gmail.com napisał(a): Sorry, I wrote it from gmail, not from within MUA since I cannot do that momentarily. Does it create any problems for others? Now gmail does not allow text emails? Wow. We are truly living in future. On the side note,

Re: [dev] [dwm] Return key keybind problem

2012-11-20 Thread Igor Blažević
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl wrote: Dnia 20 listopada 2012 15:26 Igor Blažević ibla...@gmail.com napisał(a): Now gmail does not allow text emails? My fault:) Forgot about plain text option since not using gmail through webmail that much:/

Re: [dev] [dwm] Return key keybind problem

2012-11-20 Thread Igor Blažević
For easy reading - repost: Hello, I have problems with return key in configuration but haven't found anyone with similar problem. I tried default combinations and also custom one but the problem remains. The problem is that, although key combinations with return key like Mod-Shift-Return or

Re: [dev] [dwm] Return key keybind problem

2012-11-20 Thread hiro
thanks, perhaps other gmail users can learn from this experience, too.

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:08:01PM +, Nick wrote: Yeah, I agree with the general feeling that adblocking shouldn't be done in the browser. wtf? the ads are DISPLAYED in the browser. it's stupid to blackhole dns and let requests time out rather than just not making the request in the first

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Nick
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:14:15AM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote: wtf? the ads are DISPLAYED in the browser. it's stupid to blackhole dns and let requests time out rather than just not making the request in the first place. The way I do it with a local proxy means that said requests are

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:30:38PM +, Nick wrote: The way I do it with a local proxy means that said requests are stripped out of the HTML before reaching the browser. DNS based things will presumably fail immediately with /etc/hosts, rather than time out. But you're still wasting the

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Bryan Bennett
What about something like pixelserv (written in perl[1] or C[2]) with something like hostsblock[3]? It's a DNS solution, but the timeouts aren't a problem 1: http://proxytunnel.sourceforge.net/pixelserv.php 2:

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Troels Henriksen
Kurt H Maier khm-suckl...@intma.in writes: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:30:38PM +, Nick wrote: The way I do it with a local proxy means that said requests are stripped out of the HTML before reaching the browser. DNS based things will presumably fail immediately with /etc/hosts, rather

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:33:20PM +0100, Troels Henriksen wrote: Kurt H Maier khm-suckl...@intma.in writes: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:30:38PM +, Nick wrote: The way I do it with a local proxy means that said requests are stripped out of the HTML before reaching the browser. DNS

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread ilf
On 11-20 08:08, Andrew Hills wrote: Would it be possible to disable requests made by the page to any address outside the page's domain? I do exactly this in Firefox with the RequestPolicy. It needs a little whitelisting (like CDNs), but I really love it. It doesn't really solve the ad

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:42:34PM +, Nick wrote: What I meant is that privoxy will strip out e.g. img src=badthing.png from the HTML it delivers to the browser, so the browser will not request it. I think it does the same with scripts etc. So that makes more sense. It seems to have

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread hiro
so that i don't have to set it up on all my fucking pcs. for me personally it was easier this way since I already have a dns server anyway.

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:37:09PM +0100, hiro wrote: so that i don't have to set it up on all my fucking pcs. for me personally it was easier this way since I already have a dns server anyway. sorry I didn't know you lived in a fucking computer lab

Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

2012-11-20 Thread Sam Watkins
On 11-20 08:08, Andrew Hills wrote: Would it be possible to disable requests made by the page to any address outside the page's domain? This is a worthwhile option for the browser. It can block many ads, and also block cross-site request forgery exploits. CSRF exploits take advantage of a