Configuring the Ad Zapping Capability within Your Squid Web Proxy

For some time at my workplace we've been running an ad-zapping service on our web proxy. This page documents how it works, how to use it yourself, how to join the mailing list for updates of the pattern file, and the weirdnesses of our local setup (which you need not duplicate yourself).. . . For some time at my workplace we've been running an ad-zapping service on our web proxy. This page documents how it works, how to use it yourself, how to join the mailing list for updates of the pattern file, and the weirdnesses of our local setup (which you need not duplicate yourself).

Ad zapping is not a new idea. Basicly you interpose between the reader and the web some kind of filter which replaces those annoying ad banners with something unobtrusive. (There are a few motivations for this; see this digression for mine.)

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