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(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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http://www.zaplet.org/adzapper/
A software application that can block ads from being displayed on your web browser.
This looks like it hasn't been updated in forever, because there are references to it being tested under Windows 95/98.
(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.
Polipo is a good solution for
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.
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https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/441146
I use this alongside Adblock Latitude. Maybe I shouldn't.
While Replacing Firefox, I wanted to look into a solution for abstracting out advertisement blocking.
I failed.
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
Polipo >
See also Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper
I did not follow these notes. They're just here for reference.
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http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/
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.
2014-07-26 - It's gone.
UPDATE: Well it's been more than a week and the place is still up, so who knows. In the meantime, AdBlock Plus maintains a list of subscriptions.
