Adblocking is essential to privacy. SRware’s fork of Chromium, is the only way to use the google (evil ad serving empire) open source web browser. A few bytes closer to ideal:
11.10.2008: Adblocker integrated in Iron
The wish of many users comes true: We integrated an
Adblocker in Iron!
With a filterlist so nearly all online-advertising can be
blocked. A working list can bedownloaded
here and just has to be copied to the Iron folder (e.g:
C:\Program Files\Iron Fork\). Note: You must first get the
latest version of Iron you can find under “Downloads”.
So Iron is the first Chromium based webbrowser worldwide
which has an adblocker included.
It does not fully support the AdBlockPlus format; it is a loose implementation borrowing from http://fanboy.co.nz/adblock
Hopefully SRware Iron Fork will soon tie into the context menu to take advantage of the built in inspector, whitelisting, and element hiding
If one plans to use Steve Pellegrin’s set of scripts to strip down rick752’s AdBlockPlus list, The EasyList, originally intended for BFilter, with SRware’s Iron Chromium Fork some adjustments might be needed
Otherwise manually ditch the whitelist, convert ! to # for comments, and dump $ and following per line.
Portable Iron Fork … eat the web safely
nice port, but no support for wildcards?
like,
domain.com/*.js
or something like this,
somedomain.com/*ads/*.jpg
Comment by mp3geek — December 1, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
I, too, desire wildcards and more adblocking flexibility!
GreaseMetal might be a circuitous addition to use wildcards without suffering loopback proxy (still adore proxomitron).
http://greasemetal.31tools.com/
Unfortunately it does not *yet* support Iron
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/340/images6dq7.jpg
Though it’d be best to take issue with the Iron men (about adblocking):
http://srware.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=18
Unfortunately GreaseMetal 0.2 does not support GM_xmlHttpRequest so blocking interstitial video ads will still be entertaining.
Installing and using the google fork of Chromium, Chrome, is unwise to say the least.
http://srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php
Iron, the stronger fork of Chromium, is preferred and is influencing the development of Chromium:
Hopefully the minions of google will not bury more darkness in the code for the Iron team to sift. Already installed Chrome? Escape future IPA/RLZ twists with UNchrome [?]
Grab Iron Chromium 0.4.155.0
AIR vs Iron? … delights …. RLZ and RFID in google phone? AYBABTG
Comment by Sagacious Himself — December 2, 2008 @ 3:04 am