On Thursday 30 May 2002 07:04 am, Collins wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002 06:38:08 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > begin Collins's quote: > > | I'm presuming that dep knows exactly what he is doing; he > > | certainly has in the past. I just find the (somewhat varying each > > | time) banners at the top of the "you may already be a winner" type > > | to be abominably poor taste. > > > > as do i; however, i find starvation to be in even worse taste. > > This is what I expected. I don't pretend to have a solution for you. > I just happened to roll snakeeyes twice in a row. Most banner adds I > can ignore, but these are frequently of the flashing bright red > variety that draw away from the content of the screen. Even sites > like Linux Today employ banner ads; they just aren't quite as > obnoxious. > > <sigh> > What I need is a good intelligent filter that can extract the main > content from a web page on the fly and leave the cruft behind. > </sigh> > >
Mozilla? IIRC, there are ways to block pictures based on size that is intended to target adds. Either in Mozilla natively, or thru an XUL add-on. Aren't most of the abhorrant flashing adds animated GIFs? They can be controlled using Mozilla. You can also block images from certain servers. There's lots of stuff Mozilla can do :-) Might be something about it here, http://www.mozilla.org.uk/temp/start/1.0/faq/ Regards, Tim -- Caldera eWorkstation 3.1+, kernel 2.4.18-preempt, KDE 3.0.1, Xfree86 4.1.0 4:00am up 4 days, 10:53, 4 users, load average: 0.74, 0.76, 0.72 It's what you learn AFTER you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
