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I've used Junkbuster and I can't recommend it.  It blindly blocks too much
stuff (sometimes blocking entire sites), and you have to specify too many
URLs to be blocked on your own (since nobody provides a comprehensive up-
to-date list of URLs for you).

I'll have to look into HTTPGate myself.  Sounds useful (since I recently
switched to NS 6).

     Randy


Damon wrote:

> Hi, Beartooth.  I did a search on freshmeat.net with the keyword privacy 
> and came up with these apps.  Let us know if you try them  :-)
> 
> Here's the first.  It doesn't look to have been updated since 1998, so 
> it's ancient.  BTW, I think the author *meant* to say "enhance," not 
> "enchange."
> 
>  HTTPGate
>  by N/A - Monday, September 7th 1998 06:42 EST
> 
> About:
> HTTPGate is a filtering HTTP Gateway originally intended to enchange 
> user's privacy when surfing on the net, but it can also be used to avoid 
> censorware systems in web browsing. HTTPGate operates on a user 
> definable internet port where the user connects using a web browser. The 
> main page shows a text box and a set of options user can choose to avoid 
> transmitting some information during client/server negotiation.
> http://iki.fi/too/sw/HttpGate/
> 
> Here's the second:
> 
> Internet Junkbuster
>  by N/A - Thursday, June 18th 1998 00:24 EST
> 
> About:
> The Internet Junkbuster Proxy (TM) blocks unwanted banner ads and 
> protects your privacy from cookies and other threats. It's free under 
> the GPL. It works as a proxy that stands between your browser and the 
> Internet, checking every HTTP request for each resource (including 
> graphics) against a blockfile of URLs before sending it over the 
> Internet. It can be configured as a plain old non-caching, non-blocking 
> proxy as well.
> 
> Author:
> Junkbusters Corp. <webmaster at junkbusters dot com>
> http://www.junkbuster.com
> 
> And you should perhaps look at the latest versions of web browsers-- 
> such as Opera or Galeon.  They may have these features built in.  I 
> remember when I tried Opera that it had some good cookie management 
> stuff at least.
> 
> --Damon
> 
> RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger wrote:
> 
>> Back in my old unhappy days under the idiot heel of
>> W98, I ran AdAwarePlus from Lavasoft -- and every time
>> I got into my account page on Verizon, even with
>> cookies refused iirc, it found 22 new items of spyware
>> -- twenty-ro, no typo.
>>
>>     Now I may want to get to that page again, with linux.
>> But not without protection!
>>
>>     What shall I get, and where?
>>
>> -- 
>> RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
>> retiree & linux greenhorn running Pan 0.11.2 under RH 7.2 Keep in mind 
>> that I have no idea what I am talking about.
>>
> 


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