[Rabbit-dev] ad blocking

[Luis Soltero]

Hello Robo,

Do the changes you just made affect the interface for the version I am testing?

The version of 4.9 that I have running works perfectly for blocking ads. The only reason to modify the adFilter code is
if someone wanted to handle ads differently than block sites.  I would keep things simple by using the same host table
format that is used for ad blocking.  If you have a hit in the adhost table then you process the url as if it were an
ad.  from what I have seen on the internet there are a number of services that provide hostnames for ad hosts.

here are 2
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/

I don't know of a service that provides urls to ads.

So i suggest that you do
1. nothing and leave things as they are with db host blocking
or
2. implement adHost the same way you do blocked hosts.  You might still allow the ability to use regex with the ad
blocking. 

Now that you have database resources it seems it should be very easy to do the ad hosts. 

--luis


On 1/1/11 5:55 PM, Robert Olofsson wrote:
> Hello and happy new year!
>
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:02:03 -0500
> Luis Soltero <lsoltero at globalmarinenet.com> wrote:
>
>> What other addition/changes do you plan to make before releasing this version?
> I am not sure. I did just push a change that makes it much easier to 
> use 3rd party classes in rabbit. This means that you can just drop the
> database jar-files in the libs-directory and rabbit will be able to use
> them. This ought to mean that you do not have to write special startup
> scripts.
>
> I am still thinking about updating the ad-filter so that it can do a
> database lookups, I am just not sure what data is needed for that.
> Is there someone that has any strong opinions on how to do it?
>
> /robo
>
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