Zap Annoyances on the Web (Linux Journal)

[Posted April 30, 2004 by ris]

Linux Journal takes a look at how to make web browsing more fun and less annoying in a two part article. Part 1 shows how to configure the Mozilla browser and set up squid as a proxy server to get rid of some annoyances. Then in part 2 see how AdZapper can be used to block many ads and Web bugs.

Zap Annoyances on the Web (Linux Journal)

Posted Apr 30, 2004 18:42 UTC (Fri) by huffd (guest, #10382) [Link]

Droping the userContent.css into your mozilla directory from this site will accomplish the same. And the article was wrong about reloading images from google's site faster, that's because the images were already in mozilla's cache. Squid is more effective in an environment where multiple people might be doing research on the same subject using multiple computers on a LAN, saving the bandwidth to and from the internet.

ref.
http://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/

Zap Annoyances on the Web (Linux Journal)

Posted May 3, 2004 14:18 UTC (Mon) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

If you want annoyance (ad, flash, ..) blocking on a personal basis, I highly recommend the program Privoxy.

There has been some problems with breaking pages historically, but most has been fixed in the latest version. It is available for a lot of operating systems, including packages for all Linux distros and a very easy installer for win32. All you need to configure is the "proxy" setting of your web browser.