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You don't need both display and visibility
Authored by: endquote on Nov 30, '02 01:28:05AM
There's no need to set both the display and visibility properties. If you set display to none, the object will not appear, and will not take up space. So, for example, if you had a flash ad at the top of the page and set the display to none, the content of the page would start up higher.

If instead, you set the visibility to hidden, the space would still be taken up, but you wouldn't see it. So that would help in telling when things were being filtered.

Either way, though, it doesn't really solve the problem. You are still using bandwidth to download the ad, and in the case of Flash ads, using considerable CPU time to render them. A better solution would be an ad-filtering proxy - Webwasher is a good one, but is unfortunately only availble for OS 9. Has someone else made one for X?

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Privoxy to the rescue...
Authored by: osax on Nov 30, '02 12:33:59PM

Instead of waiting for WebWasher to get X native, head over to sourceforge.net and grab privoxy 3. It will block ads and protect your privacy (http://www.privoxy.org/).



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Privoxy to the rescue...
Authored by: cynikal on Dec 02, '02 01:50:13PM

been there, done that.. the problem i have with privoxy is that it removes the browser's default behaviour of auto-completing urls. i.e.. you type in cnn and it adds www. and .com, it's a lot more convenient than typing out the whole address.

sure it might seem like a minor thing, but it bugs me enough to not use it (since i have set up my chimera/mozilla browsers to pretty much filter out 95% of advertisements anyway).

and i've looked into gettting privoxy to do the url auto completition but the privoxy developers even admitted this is a bug and said they hope to have it fixed "soon".



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