[Gllug] wwwoffle or squid? (or something else?)

[will]

----- Original Message -----
From: <gllug at codex.net>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] wwwoffle or squid? (or something else?)


> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 gllug at uncertainty.org.uk wrote:
>
> > Also I filter out most ads (by domain and url regex) this cuts about 1/3
> > of my bandidth usage that would go to bvanner ads.
>
> check out:
> http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/ijb.html
>
> it has a fairly comprehensive set of banner filters, and can forward
> connetions onto another proxy.  i.e use it in combination with squid,
> makes surfing a lot easier on a 56k dialup.

I use this on my NT machine and it does a fine job of blocking banners,
making reading theregister.co.uk that little bit more efficient.  It also
does a fine job of identifying my machine as a linux box.  It isn't perfect
and does give errors sometimes but the benfits far outway the very
occaisional minor problem.

Will.


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