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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jacob Rhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Port for html manipulating proxy
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Further to this, check out http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/ A perl
script called by squid that strips out all of the flash adds and useless
banners.

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 19:17 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Jacob Rhoden wrote:
> > I have been trying to find some sort of proxy server for my own machine, that 
> > allows me to manipulate/strip things (ie strip adverts and fix css on my 
> > commonly used pages). Is there a port for this?
> 
> Install www/squid and squidGuard.  You can use the latter to redirect blocked 
> URLs to a specific page.  If you make that redirect point to a 1x1 pixel 
> transparent GIF image, most ads disappear gracefully.
>