In praise of Privoxy
Sep. 23rd, 2006 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThis weekend I discovered the joy and pleasure that is Privoxy. Privoxy is a web filter that is completely customizeable, runs in a very small amount of memory, and does what has to be the most important service I've known: it filters out <OBJECT> references. The only ones that get through are ones I deliberately double-click on. My computer isn't the slowest, but it can still get bogged down when I have ten or twenty tabs open on firefox and all of them have some kind of Flash or Java applet running on them.
If there are sites you need to have access to, there are custom URLs that you can type in that give you access to the configuration files. You can mark a site as "fragile" (meaning that it should not be filtered because it really, really needs all that javascript and stuff) and Privoxy lets it go through just fine. If you really need Privoxy to stand down, you can turn all filtering off for a while.
Privoxy makes that all the flash and junk spamvertising go away, making my web browsing a pleasant experience. Think of it as a spam filter for the web, and enjoy the web once more.
If there are sites you need to have access to, there are custom URLs that you can type in that give you access to the configuration files. You can mark a site as "fragile" (meaning that it should not be filtered because it really, really needs all that javascript and stuff) and Privoxy lets it go through just fine. If you really need Privoxy to stand down, you can turn all filtering off for a while.
Privoxy makes that all the flash and junk spamvertising go away, making my web browsing a pleasant experience. Think of it as a spam filter for the web, and enjoy the web once more.
