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From: John Hasler on 29 Jan 2010 18:27 Use Privoxy. It will also block pretty much all advertising. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Grant on 30 Jan 2010 14:58 On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:46:00 GMT, Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: >Responding to Pascal Hambourg: > >> Hello, >> >> Mike Jones a écrit : >>> >>> With iptables I could block *.spyonyou.* to cover all spyonyou >>> addresses, >> >> How would you do that ? > > > >I forget now, but I played around with using iptables as a URL filter a >while back. The problem was the overhead. You really don't want to do name lookups from iptables, wrecks performance :) > The longer the list, the slower >the network. The /etc/hosts method has no visible overhead, but is clumsy >when you build up a decent "collection" of banned addresses. AFAIK the /etc/hosts method is popular on windows as there's little alternative over there? But it's clumsy, clunky. I use primarily windows for desktop, the dnsmasq nameserver based solution that I use (posted upthread) now is better than privoxy. I did use privoxy for a while some years ago, I think my current solution is better than privoxy. Adding an entry to local deny_domains file is just as much work as adding one to privoxy. Grant. -- http://bugs.id.au/
From: John Hasler on 30 Jan 2010 17:06 Grant writes: > I did use privoxy for a while some years ago, I think my current > solution is better than privoxy. Perhaps you should take another look. Privoxy does far more than just block specified sites. The Debian Privoxy package does everything I need out of the box. I haven't had to tweak the default configuration in years. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: John Hasler on 30 Jan 2010 17:58 J G Miller writes: > What are the advantages of Privoxy over SquidGuard? I don't know. I've never tried SquidGuard: Privoxy does exactly what I need (which to never see any advertising). -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Moe Trin on 3 Feb 2010 14:52
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux, in article <pan.2010.02.02.23.53.19(a)Arizona.Bay>, Mike Jones wrote: >Responding to Cat22: >> Mike Jones wrote: >>> ie: Adding "spyonyou" redirects /all/ addresses with that in the >>> address string to 127.0.0.1 for a fast miss'n'drop. >> for firefox install adblock plus -works great! Cat22 >Not for any other web application it doesn't. s/web// >The whole point of the /etc/hosts solution is that the whole system >is protected from spyco link-traps, not just a single application. Doesn't do anything for hard-coded addresses. Used to be someone in 'alt.privacy.spyware' who published lists of several hundred IP ranges. For ``web'' applications, a proxy server is usually less of a hassle, but then you have id10t5 who have their mail tool set to open any URL found in mail, and I've seen spammers using obfuscation to hide not only host/domain names, but IP addresses as well. Old guy |