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2007-11-15 , 18:08
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
There's always a modified hosts to stop it before you download it, and the ad-blocking CSS will generally improve flow and get some ads that the hosts file misses.

These solutions are pretty brain-dead, so they're basically failure-proof, and don't require mucking around with privoxy (which was entirely too crashtastic the last time I tried it).
I've NEVER had Privoxy "crash" on me and I've used it pretty much non-stop for almost two years now, upgrading it along the way. So far the most recent "stable" version is dated 2006 and I'm using it on my N800 w/OS2008, MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11, and Vista laptop installed as a service with ZERO problems.
On Eurogamer it blocks....THE ADS! Which was the point of Privoxy anyway. If it's crashing on you then your machine is doing something out of the ordinary.
On Penny-Arcade with the N800 I've noticed that if you have "fit to width" enabled on any browser (micro-b, opera, OS2008-mozilla) then the blocked ad kind of forces you to scroll a lot, but once you set it to normal page width that problem goes away.
What I do NOT like about the OS2008 browser is that when you set "fit to width" on one window it forces it across all the other web browser windows. OS2007 thankfully didn't do that. Some pages I like "set to width" (forums, etc.) but for most of them I don't.
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