Re: Epiphany settings

[Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon gmail com>]

Adam Hooper <adamh densi com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-21-06 at 13:33 +0300, Timo Hirvonen wrote:
> 
> > Currently adblock is _hard_ to use because it just never can't work
> > properly without configuration.  I was annoyed when I saw the "it just
> > works" advertisement and it just didn't work.
> 
> Haha, where? I'm pretty sure I only ever said "it's *supposed* to 'Just
> Work'" and I'm the one who wrote it ;). (I never finished it, and I
> certainly won't get a chance this summer.)

My memory isn't very good, sorry.  It wasn't official epiphany page
where I read it:

http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/03/15/100-why-you-should-try-epiphany-as-your-default-browser-with-gnome-214

"Enable the ad blocker extension and enjoy, without any further
configuration, lighter and faster web pages."

Thanks for the extension.

> It would work a lot better if one of the Epiphany devs ran the update
> script in the epiphany-extensions/extensions/adblock directory, and then
> distributed the resulting blacklist. (The blacklist only works when it's
> updated frequently, and I never automated its distribution in any way.)

It will never work perfectly.  You'd have to add millions of lines to
the blacklist.

I was lazy and added these to my blacklist:

google-analytics\.
/banners/
/banner\?
/ads/
/sponsors/

Probably won't be good idea to include these in Epiphany's defaults, it
would likely block too much ;)

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