Privoxy?

[ffutures]

I've had to abandon my idea of using the Opera site blocker to control advertising - it doesn't make exceptions for local files, and as well as all the adventure files whose names begin with "ad..." the FF CD-ROM has a lot of Victorian advertising, in directories called "advert1" etc and file names like ad10.gif which it won't show at all.

I'm looking instead at Privoxy, http://www.privoxy.org/ which is a proxy server with ad-blocking features. Looks like it'll do what I want, but does anyone have any experience of it?

Later: Trying this at home - it appears to work well.

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Will it work at all for local files? I would assume it is an http proxy - and reading files on your own machine doesn't require http.

(However that might be exactly what you want)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It is!