5.2 request

[Frank]

Wow ... Thanks!

I am deep in the midst of syllabi for next semester <g> .  I will check 
these out with many thanks.

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:34:45 -0500, Peter Nicholson wrote:
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> Frank,
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> I'm not certain that this will do what you want, mainly because I 
> have over 20 ad-killing expressions with no way that I know of to 
> test any of them on their own without deleting the lot and then 
> re-entering each one (having checkboxes to enable / disable each 
> individual expression would be nice, OW guys!) -- but adding this 
> string to OW's adblock prefs has blocked all Yahoo ad content 
> site-wide, as far as I can tell:
> 
> .*\.a1\.yimg\..*
> 
> Fwiw, the easiest way I've found to create new ad filters** is to 
> option-click (/ right-click / whatever pops your menu) on the 
> offending article (or preferably several from the same page / site, 
> so you have a good-sized sample), and choose Image/Filter Image. Then 
> I open OW AdBlock Preferences and take a look at the Blocked URLs 
> list.
> 
> For example, on www.nytimes.com most or all of the ad content comes 
> from "www.nytimes.com/adx/randomstringofcharactersblahblahblah". 
> Instead of trying to figure out the proper regex format to block 
> anything emanating from that specific directory, I just use ".*adx.*" 
> as the string to block. Note that this gives me problems with 
> 'adx.com' or 'bADXray.gif' or anything containing that string, but 
> it's as close to keyword blocking as OW gets.
> 
> In short, pick your list of 'evil' words; 'doubleclick', 'ads', 
> 'advertising' etc; put '.*' on the front and end to match that word 
> appearing in any context, and you've got the 
> smashing-flies-with-a-sledgehammer method of adblocking.
> 
> Peter
> 
> ** I've tried privoxy and squid as well; if I had a fixed location, 
> broadband, and a faster machine I'd probably use one or both of them 
> esp. as they work regardless of which browser I'm running; but for my 
> setup, a G3 Powerbook and dialup, the decrease in speed coupled with 
> having to disable or reconfigure their filter settings ever time I 
> switched from home to work made them impractical.
> 
> On Friday, Jan 7, 2005, at 11:53 US/Eastern, Frank wrote:
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>> I've noticed that since I tweaked Camino with a custom css to block the
>> most common ads, I've moved back to Camino.  I am no good with regular
>> expressions and I just can't seem to filter what I want filtered in
>> OW.  I've never been able to block the "header images" on the My.Yahoo
>> page, no matter what I've tried.  And so, I end up back with Camino.
>> (I support OW by being a paying customer, tho.)
> 
> 
> Peter Nicholson
> superhancpetram at earthlink.net
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