Re: Busting flash and advertisements via DontGet

mi <[email protected]> writes:

> I am tired of the macromedia flashs and set 'disable-flash = yes' in the ModifyHTML section.
> However, still flashs are downloaded. This may be related to the next question:

I don't think that it is related since the handling of flash and the
DontGet section are totally separate.  When you say that the flash
still gets downloaded do you mean when you request it offline or when
you are viewing online?

There are separate options in the FetchOptions section that control
what is automatically downloaded when pages are fetched after being
requested offline.  You need to look at setting the option 'objects =
no'.

If you are having a problem with seeing flash when you are online can
you give me the URL of a site that has flash that gets through.


> I invested an hour to brush up my DontGet section, and now it contains the supposed list
> of advertisers below. I am just at the beginiing, but as far as i can tell
> it doesn't work.  After all, i'd just like to know why ?
> Maybe the adserver-pages are invoked via jscript or by database requests ?

> DontGet
> {
> ##
> ## XXX: Advertisements (experimental: generic entry and examples)
> ##
> <http://62.26.121.2/*> replacement = /local/dontget/replacement.busted
> #
> <http://images.ads.*> replacement = /local/dontget/replacement.busted

You have specified a whole list of replacements (which are all the
same), but you have not specified any URL not to fetch.  I think that
what you need is:

DontGet
{
 http://62.26.121.2/*
 http://images.ads.*

 replacement = /local/dontget/replacement.busted
}


Have you seen the list on the WWWOFFLE web pages at:

http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/DontGet.txt

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Andrew.
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