Polipo + adzapper

While Replacing Firefox, I wanted to look into a solution for abstracting out advertisement blocking.

I failed.

• Polipo makes downloading from file-hosting sites hang up regularly, starting at 15MB. May be a mis-configuration.

• I have Firefox set up to let me type single words into the location bar to trigger its search feature. Polipo breaks this, trying to go to http://keyword Multiple keywords work, so this is rather strange.

See also Ad-blocking with Polipo

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TODO: I'm unhappy with the idea of adzapper and I'd rather remove it to simplify things and instead use a large polipo /etc/polipo/forbidden list. Then I could use some external scripting to occasionally update that list.

• 2013-05-22 - polipo 1.0.4.1-1.2 and adzapper 20090301.dfsg.1-0.2 on Lubuntu 13.04

2013-05-22 - polipo 1.0.4.1-1.2 and adzapper 20090301.dfsg.1-0.2 ∞

I got both of these version numbers from synaptic, I don't know how to ask the programs themselves.

\sudo  \apt-get  install \
  polipo \
  adzapper \
  ` # `
\sudo  /etc/init.d/polipo  restart

1. redirector = /usr/bin/adzapper
2. I did this in the configuration window.

3. FIXME: automate that..

• Configuration

• Status

Notes: Ancient configuration in Firefox says to not use a proxy for: groups.google.com, linuxquestions.org, www.flickr.com

Firefox configuration for the polipo proxy ∞

• Edit > Preferences

• Advanced > Network >

  • Cached Web Content:
    [x] Override automatic cache management
    Limit cache to 0 MB of space
  • Connection, click [Settings]
    (o) Manual proxy configuration:
    HTTP Proxy: localhost Port: 8123
    SSL Proxy: localhost Port: 8123

Midori configuration for the polipo proxy ∞

Tested 2013-05-22 on Lubuntu 13.04, using Midori 0.4.3.

• Edit > Preferences (or alt-ctrl-p)

• Network >

  • Proxy Server: HTTP proxy server
  • Hostname: localhost
  • Port: 8123
  • Web Cache: 0
    Since polipo uses its own disk cache, why have the browser use its as well?

Notes ∞

• Using tor with Polipo (Tor, Polipo) - Set socksParentProxy to localhost:9050

Last updated 2016-12-24 at 23:44:52