https://lwn.net/Articles/82713/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Zap Annoyances on the Web (Linux Journal)". en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2025 02:58:26 +0000 Sat, 06 Sep 2025 02:58:26 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/83125/ https://lwn.net/Articles/83125/ job <p>If you want annoyance (ad, flash, ..) blocking on a personal basis, I <em>highly</em> recommend the program <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy</a>.</p><p>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.</p> Mon, 03 May 2004 14:18:43 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/82997/ https://lwn.net/Articles/82997/ huffd 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.<p>ref.<br>http://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/ Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:42:50 +0000