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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

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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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https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996

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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