From: "Peter Billam" <pj@pjb.com.au>
To: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com
Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] adblocking ? was: experimental JS console patch
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 18:40 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17eb15$141qi5n@ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net> (raw)
Greetings Chris,
> Nope, I didn't miss it, I was just holding back. ...
Of course of course, it was intended as a "question on notice",
a "just put it at the back of the queue" thing.
You've all got _lots_ of core code up in the air, fundamental stuff,
it's most impressive.
You're also way ahead of the other non-gui browsers, as far as I know.
(Indeed hopefully they will be able to reuse your JS and DOM work ...)
> How does it work in the mainstream browsers, exactly?
I'm no expert at all, but I just installed adblock-plus on my
debian stable iceweasel, and it has improved my quality-of-life.
See:
https://adblockplus.org/en/about#workings
prompt> aptitude show xul-ext-adblock-plus
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.6.6+dfsg-1
Maintainer: Debian Mozilla Extension Maintainers
<pkg-mozext-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 2,665 k
Enhances: iceape, icedove, iceweasel
Provides: adblock-plus, iceape-adblock-plus, icedove-adblock-plus,
iceweasel-adblock-plus
Description: advertisement blocking extension for web browsers
Adblock Plus is a content-filtering extension for Iceweasel, Firefox,
SeaMonkey, and several other apps; it allows users to prevent webpage
elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed.
On the first run, Adblock Plus will ask you if you want to subscribe to a
filter list, which is automatically updated and blocks a lot of common
advertisements. Additional filters can be added at will, and it's
also possible to use wildcards in order to block e.g. all images
or JavaScript files from specific servers or directories.
Homepage: http://adblockplus.org/
... implemented-in::ecmascript ...
Perhaps it even could be possible to hook adblock-plus into edbrowse ...
eg: edbrowse-adblock-plus ? But I have no idea what's involved.
> I'm sure that whenever we can browse very "rich" dynamic sites
> with edbrowse, online advertising is going to be a problem.
It'll have to be tackled eventually, just like spam filters for email.
> The only thing stopping us from building it into edbrowse will be
> lack of developers.
I can't volunteer, I'm sorry :-(
I'm getting a bit old, and maintaining too many things already.
Regards, Peter Billam
http://www.pjb.com.au pj@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410
"Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman
from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949
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2015-10-07 7:40 Peter Billam [this message]
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2015-09-28 6:33 Peter Billam
2015-10-07 5:14 ` Chris Brannon
2015-10-07 7:04 ` Karl Dahlke
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