"Karsten M. Self" <[email protected]> writes: [snip] > Junkbuster similarly greatly increases browsing speed (and pleasure) > both by halting unnecessary banner downloads (unlike much web graphical > content, this is largely _unique_ data, and doesn't cache well), and the > related DNS lookups required to fetch this content. The problem with > Junkbuster is that it has rather coarse filtering preference options -- > you can set preferences on a sitewide basis, but not (with any level of > ease) at a personal level. So it's suitable for blocking, say, the > major banner sites (doubleclick.{net,com}, bingbangmedia.com, > valueclick.com, looksmart.com, qksrv.net, etc., and possibly some > wildcards (e.g.: /[Aa]ds, /[Aa]dverts, /banner, /banners), /*/ads, > /*/banners). But fine-grained control at the gateway isn't possible, > and you'll have to allow access to nonstandard ports -- I find that :80, > :81, :88, :8000, :8001, :8009, :8080, :8081, :8881, and :1080 tend to > cover most (but not all) standard variants. > > For my personal browsing preferences, I prefer using Galeon's built-in > image filtering, though I wish it could provide finer-grained control > (e.g.: subdirectories) and broader scope (e.g.: regex filtering). > Ultimately though, content filtering is something you want to put in the > individual user's hands.
Although I haven't tried it, there is a GNU/Linux version of WebWasher available at http://www.webwasher.com/en/products/wwash/download_linux.htm It's proprietary but free as in beer. I've used it under Windows, and in practice it worked far better than junkbuster. It seems to have allow for a decent amount of finer-grained control by the user. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
