 | Jun 9 2008 |
PLANETENPAULTJE I was getting significantly pissed-off by the Google ads on the MU site. While I was wondering how to block them in Saft and PithHelmet when I saw BFilter passing by. I installed it and *all* ads are now stripped. Some sites are mangled in the process, but not many. Most excellent stuff this.
(Version 1.1.4) | |
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| Oct 17 2007 |
LEE123 its the best. no more annoying animated gifs. life is great, thank you
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| Jul 30 2007 |
MUTZ I have this baby installed for a while now and it works flawlessly without screwing up the layout of your add-free webpages... kudos to the developers
(Version 1.1) | |
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| Jul 8 2007 |
KOMBI64 Features: works right out of the box, kills ads and junk scripts with The Gread Heuristic Lightsaber, configures Mac's newtwork preferences automatically, doesn't need blacklist updating, and the ad-removal is configurable. Love it.
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 | Jul 8 2007 |
KOMBI64 Ad-blocking is sweet, but forwarding is obscure. 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. 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"?> <option name="foo" selected="selected"> <type>socks4</type> <host>127.0.0.1</host> <port>9050</port> <type>http</type> <host>ip address goes here</host> <port>port goes here</port> 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.
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 | Jul 29 2007 |
JART Sorry for the late response. It seems there is no way to get notifications when a comment is posted. 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.
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 | Sep 5 2006 |
HEAVY_SHOWER quote: New option to remove ads completely, as opposed to subsituting them with a clickable replacement image. How does one access the "option" to remove ads completely?
(Version 1.0.6) | |
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| Sep 5 2006 |
JART Because the Mac version doesn't have a GUI, it's a little tricky. You have to edit the following file: /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
(Version 1.0.6) | |
| Jul 24 2006 |
MU5TI Works as advertised. 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.
(Version 1.0.5) | |
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| Jul 9 2006 |
HEAVY_SHOWER Yes, I was having compatibility problems with my connection, and now with BFilter 1.0.4a, everything's fine. The web is now a much better experience with BFilter. Thanks!
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| Jul 6 2006 |
LOUDSCREAMER Works perfectly as advertised. Default config catches over 95% of the ads. It just works. Better if there is a GUI for customizing the configs/filters in Mac OS X
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| Jul 5 2006 |
HEAVY_SHOWER Doesn't work for me. I get this message after clicking a URL: (BF) Locations are out-of-sync with their counterparts. Reinstalling BFilter will fix that. What counterparts? Anyway, reinstalling fixes nothing.
(Version 1.0.4) | |
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| Jul 6 2006 |
JART When BFilter is installed, it duplicates your network locations, like this: Suppose "(BF) Automatic" is selected. In this case, BFilter finds the counterpart location "Automatic", to check if it needs to use an upstream proxy. The error you are getting means that "(BF) Automatic" uses a network interface (AirPort, Ethernet, ...) that's not configured in "Automatic". If reinstalling BFilter doesn't help, try uninstalling it, then make sure your network connection works, then install it again. If that doesn't help, send me the following file: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/Preferences.plist Then I should be able to resolve this problem.
(Version 1.0.4) | |
| Jul 5 2006 |
SALIMAR works ok for what it does as it only seems to cover the images as the links themselves remain active.
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| Jun 8 2006 |
STRYCH9 Forget all other tools, BFilter is really great. Nothing to do, install it, choose it in the Network Menu and that's all. Want to see the ads, choose your previous configuration. Want to hide them, choose the BF one. That's all ! Simple and effective. Thanks a lot for such a nice tool !!!!
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| May 13 2006 |
THEBRIX2008 Excellent. I used to use Privoxy for ad filtering, but removed it because it became out of date and no longer caught the latest scripting tricks for pushing ads. BFilter is bang up to date and I have had no problems so far. Unlike, for example, Pith Helmet, it works in everything; the trick the author has implemented to do this (Apple menu, then Location, then select your location prefixed with "(BF)" to turn the filter on, or select your location only to turn it off) is brilliant and saves typing the details of proxies into Web applications, as Privoxy required. The only minor demerit is that the GUI rules editor is Windows-only. However, the default rules are faultless and there should be no reason to edit the text files which contain them.
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