What's this BFilter thingie? And who's +BB?
(Not posted in The Bar - +BB may be underage!)
Oddysey
(who has just exhausted his entire supply of French words)
http://bfilter.sourceforge.net/
tBB is the author.
Quote: BFilter is a filtering web proxy. It was originally intended for removing banner ads only, but at some point it has been extended to remove popups and webbugs. It can't be used as a general purpose filtering proxy because it was never intended this way. For example you can't just block an arbitary object, you can only hint the ad detector in its decision making.
The main advantage BFilter has over the similar tools is its heuristic ad detection algorithm. The traditional blocklist-based approach is also implemented, but it's mostly used for dealing with false positives. Unlike other tools that require constant updates of their blocklists, BFilter manages to remove over 90% of ads even with an empty blocklist!
The javascript generated ads are not a problem for BFilter, as it has a javascript engine to combat them.
BFilter is expected work with any browser that supports proxies (nearly any browser does), and can forward requests to another HTTP proxy.
BFilter is written in C++ and is distributed under the GNU GPL.
It looks very promising, and the author has privately notified me of his project and I've conducted a test run, and I can say that it is very fast and he did a good job on his own
Oddysey,
Quote:Excusez moi, s'il vous plait, mai.....
Just one little nitpick...
"mai" in French is the month of May. "But" in French is "mais".
Siamesecat,
I was speaking colloquially! [lol]
Oddysey
Kye-U;
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Oddysey