Privoxy

Apr 23, 2004 21:42

This proxy does wonders for my web browsing while cruising on the 56k connection at home. It also makes ALL web pages more sane when surfing at any speed. It can block any sort of crap that a webmaster might want to throw at you.

I just now decided to do something about the Flash ads on Megatokyo and after a bit of playing it kills all embedded Flash objects from .megatokyo.com ...awesome. The page has sped up dramatically.

I also have it customized to block events.theregister.co.uk and rad.osdn.com. It doesn't block Slashdot's OSDN ads just to be nice to the /. guys I guess. Also I changed it so that the msn ads ( which it blocks by default ) are 1x1 transparent gifs. *sweet*

Oh some disclaimers:

1. The last version was shitacular on W95...I do not know about the current release

2. If you goto Witchvox often, you have to set it so that it does not {filter img-reorder} otherwise the site takes forever to load.

3. My amazing experience right now is with Privoxy 3.0.3, MacOS 10.3.3, & Safari 1.2.1

4. The last release of Privoxy and/or Safari didn't handle "session-only" cookies properly....it would still keep them until they expired
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