Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: > DoctorBill wrote: >> http://www.privoxy.org/ >> and >> http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/index.html their manual >> >> This is a program mentioned in Popular Science March 2009 page 78. >> >> It supposedly warns one if a link is going to redirect you to another site. >> >> Apparently Google has a plugin that will do the same thing. >> >> Does anyone here know about it or used it ? >> >> DoctorBill > > I used privoxy once, and it was far too much trouble > than it was worth. I gave up with it.
Peter the Impatient Hippo? I've used privoxy for several years on both Windows and Linux boxes. Yes, it does require some tweaking if you're not happy with the defaults. Regarding redirects, what privoxy does is truncate, e.g., http://some.place/some_script?http://some.where-else bypassing http://some.place/some_script? and going directly to http://some.where-else This can be reconfigured on a per site basis if you don't like the defaults. I don't recall ever seeing a warning, however. Privoxy works silently in the background without throwing up a lot of eye candy when it's doing it's job. > I have to idea about google's > -- -Rinaldi- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. -- Samuel Goldwyn _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
