anybody care to guess?

[Tim Wunder]

On Thursday 30 May 2002 07:04 am, Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 06:38:08 -0400 dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> > begin  Collins's  quote:
> > | I'm presuming that dep knows exactly what he is doing; he
> > | certainly has in the past.  I just find the (somewhat varying each
> > | time) banners at the top of the "you may already be a winner" type
> > | to be abominably poor taste.
> >
> > as do i; however, i find starvation to be in even worse taste.
>
> This is what I expected.  I don't pretend to have a solution for you.
> I just happened to roll snakeeyes twice in a row.  Most banner adds I
> can ignore, but these are frequently of the flashing bright red
> variety that draw away from the content of the screen.  Even sites
> like Linux Today employ banner ads; they just aren't quite as
> obnoxious.
>
> <sigh>
> What I need is a good intelligent filter that can extract the main
> content from a web page on the fly and leave the cruft behind.
> </sigh>
>
> 

Mozilla?
IIRC, there are ways to block pictures based on size that is intended to 
target adds. Either in Mozilla natively, or thru an XUL add-on. Aren't most 
of the abhorrant flashing adds animated GIFs? They can be controlled using 
Mozilla. You can also block images from certain servers. There's lots of 
stuff Mozilla can do :-)
Might be something about it here, 
http://www.mozilla.org.uk/temp/start/1.0/faq/

Regards, 
Tim

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