john Wesley

Howdy.

Does anyone have any information or know of any sources of information regarding the blocking of adverts within web pages that they would like to share?

I dont intend to make a unique new ad-guard with fancy feature's or graphical skins to inspire the most application-hungry-hunter's desire to have it, just at my mam's for the night, my eyes hurt from reading ad's and I fancy coding something.

Dont have a clue where to start though, never done anything with the web before and so far google's link's are no shows.


Thanks.

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DaWei

I would suggest you might want to cure that before you attempt much. The apparent ease of doing it well sucks in a lot of people. The result is too often ugliness partnered with bullshit.

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john Wesley

I bet that's true, im just sick of downloading other people's ugly shit, that apparently Do know what their doing.

Maybe you have a suggestion as to where I could find a reliable piece of software for this?

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DaWei

Now you've got me confused. I can't tell if you want an ad blocker for use, or want to write one for grins. If it's the latter, you need to find out how the web works, so you know the various ways that ads get fed into a page.

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john Wesley

Im sorry about that.

writing a blocker for grins was the initial idea, and also as you say in order to do it I must learn the workings of the web, which will no doubt come in handy.

A blocker would be a neat trick for my mam though and since I wont be here tomorow, wont of written my software by then and without a clue as to when I will see her again, an alternative would have to do.

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DaWei

In that case, I'd recommend you download Firefox for her, download Adblock as an extension, and start it off by importing as an exclusion filter the text file that I have attached. You can get more complete filter files off the web, but I find that this one, which I haven't updated in forever, keeps me pretty clean. As a manual thangy, you can right-click on excludable things you don't want to see and add them to the filter list.

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john Wesley

Great stuff DaWei, thanks for the tips.

Il go and do that now before I shoot to bed.

Edit : Just wondered, Is FireFox a good offline browser?
For me this time.

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DaWei

Firefox is a good browser. On or off line has nada to do with it. A web page is a silk purse or a sow's ear, depending on its creator, not where it lives.

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lectricpharaoh

Firefox is an excellent browser, and if you find it doesn't display something 'properly' that Internet Explorer does, it's more than likely due to the page author using IE-specific extensions to standard HTML. In other words, most (if not all) of the time, the fault lies with the page, not the browser.

Firefox also has a whole host of things that make it more pleasant to use, such as being able to scale text with ctrl-+ and ctrl-- (going beyond the IE View->Text Size menu choices, as it also scales text that page authors have set to a fixed point size). My favorite feature, though, has to be tabbed browsing; no longer do you have to open a separate window for every page you'd like to open simultaneously.

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bigguy

I've actually made a little piece of software for ad-blocking it will display the image I assigned and say "This Ad was blocked by TEam Alpha & Omega's Ad-Block'

In my result pages laoded 5-7 seconds faster on dialup. and blocked 86% of ad's. PM me or something if you want it. I'll try to find it it's on my linux box so it might take me a while

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