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Brave

2016-10-27

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Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/brave/
https://www.brave.com/

Brave is a web browser that uses components from Chrome to build a more security-conscious browser which also has an alternate advertising mechanism with revenue sharing.

Like Chrome, it's missing fundamental things.

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adzapper

2015-12-13

advertisements, commandline software, corporate jamming, dead, disliked, freeware, Glances, internet software, Linux software, open-source software, privacy, software, web browser component replacement, Windows software

http://www.zaplet.org/adzapper/

A software application that can block ads from being displayed on your web browser.

I experimented with this during my replacing web browser components project as a replacement for various ad blocking, Greasemonkey and Stylish.
See also Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper.
This looks like it hasn't been updated in forever, because there are references to it being tested under Windows 95/98.

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Privoxy

2015-12-13

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(on Wikipedia)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/
http://www.privoxy.org/

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.

I experimented with cliget during my replacing web browser components project. I was interested in replacing Greasemonkey and Stylish, Adblock (now I use Adblock Latitude), Change Referer Button, etc. While I did get it working, I didn't stick with it.

Based on Internet Junkbuster.
Polipo is a good solution for

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Adblock Latitude

2015-11-15

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https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/privacy-and-security/adblock-latitude/

I use this alongside Bluhell Firewall. Maybe I shouldn't.

2015-11-20 update - This seems to have been fucking up some websites. Argh. It's disabled for now.

The equivalent for Firefox is AdBlock.

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Bluhell Firewall

2015-11-15

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https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/441146

I use this alongside Adblock Latitude. Maybe I shouldn't.

This is not actually firewall software, but an ad-blocker/privacy extension.

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Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper

2013-06-14

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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.

Ad-blocking with Polipo

2010-06-16

advertisements, corporate jamming, HOWTO, internet, polipo

Polipo >

I did not follow these notes. They're just here for reference.

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Google advertising cookie opt-out Firefox add-on

2009-06-30

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http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/

update: Google Advertising Opt-Out add-on: updated for Firefox 3.5[unknown prefix: Google Advertising Opt-Out add-on]

Did you know about this? I didn't. Thanks to some random surfing and an EFF post, I just learned of it.

With this browser plugin you can permanently opt out of the DoubleClick cookie, which is an advertising cookie that Google uses. The plugin lets you keep your opt-out status for this browser even when you clear all cookies.

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