A better webpage filter

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Sun Mar 25 18:29:03 EDT 2007


Anton Vredegoor <anton.vredegoor at gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> Most web pages I visit lately are taking so much room for ads (even
> with adblocker installed) that the mere 20 columns of text that are
> available for reading are slowing me down unacceptably. I have tried
[...]

http://webcleaner.sourceforge.net/


Not actually tried it myself, though did browse some of the code once
or twice -- does some clever stuff.

Lots of other Python-implemented HTTP proxies, some of which are
relevant (though AFAIK all less sophisticated than webcleaner), are
listed on Alan Kennedy's nice page here:

http://xhaus.com/alan/python/proxies.html


A surprising amount of diversity there.


John



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