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BFilter is a filtering web proxy. It was originally intended for removing banner ads only, but since then its capabilities have been greatly extended.
Unlike most of the similar tools, it doesn't rely on blacklists (although it does support them). The problem with blacklists is that advertisers are always one step ahead. You see an ad slip through, you update your blacklist, and in case it didn't help, you add a new entry yourself. Once I got tired of that, I decided to write a proxy that would detect ads heuristically, much like modern anti-virus software manages to detect many
Unlike most of the similar tools, it doesn't rely on blacklists (although it does support them). The problem with blacklists is that advertisers are always one step ahead. You see an ad slip through, you update your blacklist, and in case it didn't help, you add a new entry yourself. Once I got tired of that, I decided to write a proxy that would detect ads heuristically, much like modern anti-virus software manages to detect many
What's New
Version 1.1.4:
- Youtube works again.
- Bypass mode now correctly disables the blocklist.
- Fixed a crash on "disk full" condition.
- The heuristic analizer was improved.
- The JavaScript engine was updated.
- Some new experimental filters where added.
- Minor UI improvements.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| Downloads:10,903 |
| Version Downloads:2,763 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Free |
| Date:07 Jun 2008 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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BFilter is a filtering web proxy. It was originally intended for removing banner ads only, but since then its capabilities have been greatly extended.
Unlike most of the similar tools, it doesn't rely on blacklists (although it does support them). The problem with blacklists is that advertisers are always one step ahead. You see an ad slip through, you update your blacklist, and in case it didn't help, you add a new entry yourself. Once I got tired of that, I decided to write a proxy that would detect ads heuristically, much like modern anti-virus software manages to detect many viruses unknown to it.
Unlike most of the similar tools, it doesn't rely on blacklists (although it does support them). The problem with blacklists is that advertisers are always one step ahead. You see an ad slip through, you update your blacklist, and in case it didn't help, you add a new entry yourself. Once I got tired of that, I decided to write a proxy that would detect ads heuristically, much like modern anti-virus software manages to detect many viruses unknown to it.
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PlanetenPaultje reviewed on 09 Jun 2008
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Lee123 reviewed on 17 Oct 2007
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Mutz reviewed on 30 Jul 2007
and it's free...
kudos to the developers
kombi64 reviewed on 08 Jul 2007
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AppleCrypt Mods reviewed on 11 Nov 2006
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How does one access the "option" to remove ads completely?
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/Library/Application Support/BFilter/config
and add "page_cleanup = safe" (without quotes) somewhere after "ad_border = none". If you didn't have an earlier version installed, then you edit the option, not add it.
The possible values are "off", "safe" and "maximum".
They are documented here:
http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bfilter/trunk/bfilter/conf/config.default?view=markup
Finally, you have to restart BFilter. Either just reboot, or issue this command from the terminal:
sudo /Library/StartupItems/BFilter/BFilter restart
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Mok.In.Touch™ reviewed on 25 Jul 2006
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Mu5ti reviewed on 24 Jul 2006
If you want to tweak the rules, head to
/Library/Application Support/BFilter
after reading the forums and documentation.
The most beautiful part of this is the Network Locations are added by the installer, so if something is not working as it should, you can go back to your original Network Location.
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The web is now a much better experience with BFilter. Thanks!
Aside from forwarding issues: the app seems like an optimal ad-filtering solution - heuristic analysis, my God!, someone had finally implemented in ad-blocking... and flash-filtering!
1) I have my TOR running, occasionally I use some HTTP proxies, and I decided to configure them both into one proxy-chain and see what happens then.
2) Here's my setup:
Browser -> bfilter HTTP proxy (127.0.0.1:8080) -> TOR SOCKS4 proxy (127.0.0.1:9050) -> some HTTP proxy -> Internet.
Now I point Firefox' HTTP proxy to 127.0.0.1:8080, ads are filtered out, if it point it to 8118 (TOR), my identity is masked, but not both. :)
3) Here's my forwarding.xml (which doesn't work):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<forwarding>
<option name="foo" selected="selected">
<proxy-chain>
<proxy>
<type>socks4</type>
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>9050</port>
</proxy>
<proxy>
<type>http</type>
<host>ip address goes here</host>
<port>port goes here</port>
</proxy>
</proxy-chain>
</option>
</forwarding>
4) I've searched web thoroughly, read all the available docs and forum discussions, but haven't figured out what am I doing wrong.
Hope it can be fixed.
About your problem: the scenario you describe doesn't require messing with config files. Just create a network location for Tor, specify localhost:9050 as SOCKS proxy, and make sure it works. Then you just re-install BFilter and it will create a "(BF) Tor" location, which will work as you want:
Browser -> BFilter -> Tor -> Internet.
Editing the forwarding.xml file is only necessary if you want to have more than one chain between BFilter and the Internet.
Note that on OSX, an entry in forwarding.xml overrides a network location of the same name. But again, you don't need modifying forwarding.xml for your scenario to work.