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Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveller, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism. — Henry David Thoreau

Sick of web advertising?

Thursday December 18, 2003 13:23

If you’re sick of advertising on the websites, then try Privoxy, available on OS X, Linux and Windows platforms. Privoxy is a free, open source software package which runs as a proxy server on your computer, automatically filtering out advertisements, unwanted cookies and more.

Privoxy is a proxy that is solely focused on privacy protection and junk elimination. Sitting between your browser(s) and the Internet, it is in a perfect position to filter outbound personal information that your browser is leaking, as well as inbound junk. It uses a variety of techniques to do this, all of which are under your control via the various configuration files and options.

http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PROXYMORON

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