Into.the.Void. » adblock plus http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog Into The Void Sat, 07 Aug 2010 08:06:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Filter out advertisments from greek sites using adblock plus http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2009/06/23/filter-out-advertisments-from-greek-sites-using-adblock-plus/ http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2009/06/23/filter-out-advertisments-from-greek-sites-using-adblock-plus/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:46:11 +0000 kargig http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/?p=641 I’ve decided to start a filter for adblock plus to filter out advertisements from Greek sites.

You can find more information on subscribing to the filter on the page: Greek adblock plus filter.

I started the list a long time ago with some personal filter for sites I visit the most. In order to enrich the list I searched and found a list with the supposedly “top 50″ greek sites (regarding traffic), so I visited them and started adding filters to reduce the ads on them.

I warn you though, the filters are a bit strict…and I don’t like flash ads…I really don’t. I hope you like the list.

Please contact me, by email or by commenting on Greek adblock plus filter page to add your own custom filters to the list.

]]> http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2009/06/23/filter-out-advertisments-from-greek-sites-using-adblock-plus/feed/ 4 Switching from Iceweasel to Swiftfox on debian http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2009/06/13/switching-from-iceweasel-to-swiftfox-on-debian/ http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2009/06/13/switching-from-iceweasel-to-swiftfox-on-debian/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:39:09 +0000 kargig http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/?p=598 I’ve bumped into an Iceweasel + adblock plus bug: iceweasel: AdBlock Plus (1.0.2) custom element hiding filters does not work
It looks like Iceweasel from the stable branch of debian (version 3.0.6-1) has a problem hiding elements from websites. That makes some parts of adblock plus useless and ads start appearing on various websites.
What’s weird is that the problem only appears on Iceweasel and not on official Firefox (as the bug report says).

My options were to either a) switch to a testing/unstable version of Iceweasel from debian, b) get a binary package from firefox website or c) get another custom version. I chose method c) and I got swiftfox. Since Swiftfox provides a nice debian repo it was really easy to install and test. The whole experiment got even more interesting since swiftfox provides builds for firefox version 3.5…

After a update-alternatives --config x-www-browser I was ready to test it.
Swiftfox 3.5b4 works great with adblock plus and it even feels a bit faster. I can’t really tell for sure though. The only addon I had to reinstall was firegpg.

My impressions are great so far and I think I will keep it, at least until the bug mentioned gets resolved somehow on the stable branch.

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