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I've been using Privoxy. Killing two birds with one stone here: proxying access through a VPS to hide the home IP address && blocking ads. Apart from it occas
by floatboth 8y ago
I've been using Privoxy.
Killing two birds with one stone here: proxying access through a VPS to hide the home IP address && blocking ads.
Apart from it occasionally blocking legitimate sites that begin with the word "ad" (something like, say, "adrian.blog.thing"), it works great. Because it's an HTTP proxy, it offers an interface for bypassing these unintended blocks.
- paulryanrogers 8y agoIf it's a dumb string-start check then that could be a lot of false positives. How often has it been wrong? I personally hate wondering why something's not working and having to go through every extension to debug my browsing session.
- floatboth 8y agoQuite rarely in practice.
- userbinator 8y agoProxomitron, which Privoxy was inspired by, has a few patches which make it filter HTTPS too (you need to install a certificate for MITM, obviously.) As more sites use HTTPS the ability to filter their content becomes more important too.