Adblock or Adblock Plus & Adblock Filterset.G Updater for Opera 9.00 beta 2

[RAV TUX]

I have been looking for an extension for Opera 9.00 beta 2 that is comparable to Adblock Plus 0.7.0.1 and Adblock FilterSet.G Updater 0.3.0.4 found on Firefox 1.5.0.4. for both my Ubuntu 6.06 & XPsp2 box

I did find Python Adblocker for Opera but am finding it hard to figure out:
http://operawiki.info/OperaPythonAdblock

there is also a C++ Adblocker for Opera
http://operawiki.info/CPlusPlusAdBlock

and here is an Opera Adblock thread
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=75874&t=1149653511&page=11#comment1216738

I was just wondering if anybody here has been successful in implementing Adblock for Opera?

[RAV TUX]

I have been looking for an extension for Opera 9.00 beta 2 that is comparable to Adblock Plus 0.7.0.1 and Adblock FilterSet.G Updater 0.3.0.4 found on Firefox 1.5.0.4. for both my Ubuntu 6.06 & XPsp2 box

I did find Python Adblocker for Opera but am finding it hard to figure out:
http://operawiki.info/OperaPythonAdblock

there is also a C++ Adblocker for Opera
http://operawiki.info/CPlusPlusAdBlock

and here is an Opera Adblock thread
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=75874&t=1149653511&page=11#comment1216738

I was just wondering if anybody here has been successful in implementing Adblock for Opera?

also a
Lua Adblocker for Opera

http://operawiki.info/OperaLuaAdblock

[RAV TUX]

am I the only one using Opera on Linux?

[SlugO]

I think it's better to just use the built in ad blocker that comes with Opera.
It's not exactly as powerful as FF's Adblock but atleast it's light, you don't need anything extra. And if some ads get past it just click to block em or add new rules.

Here's my urlfilter.ini that works pretty well, just remove the .txt from the end and add it to .opera directory.

[RAV TUX]

I think it's better to just use the built in ad blocker that comes with Opera.
It's not exactly as powerful as FF's Adblock but atleast it's light, you don't need anything extra. And if some ads get past it just click to block em or add new rules.

Here's my urlfilter.ini that works pretty well, just remove the .txt from the end and add it to .opera directory.

Great! Thanks for the advice.

[Flavian]

Thank you very much!
I was searching for a good Adblocker for such a long time!
Since I don't like Firefox at all I was trying hard to find an adblocker to block out all the crap that was presented through that.

My thanks go to you guys...
The ini file works just fine and does everything I need :)

Thanks
Flo

[ice60]

hi, i'm about %80 sure you can use the Adblock filter set with Privoxy

apt-get install privoxy

privoxy by it self will block most things, it's an http proxy.

to configure Opera to use Privoxy all you have to do is go to -
Tools>Preferences>Network>Proxy Servers

then configure it like the screenshot, and that's it - everytime you startup Opera it will use Privoxy.

you can also use an adblocking hosts file

[ice60]

i just thought i'd let you know that the places to look where to put the adblock filter set would be these -

/etc/privoxy/default.action
/etc/privoxy/config
/etc/privoxy/user.action

this will show if it's running -
ps -e |grep privoxy

and this is how to start and stop it -
sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy start
sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy stop

[ice60]

i just had alook and maybe you can use the 'filter file'

http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.3/user-manual/config.html#FILTERFILE


The filter file contains content modification rules that use regular expressions. These rules permit powerful changes on the content of Web pages, e.g., you could disable your favorite JavaScript annoyances, re-write the actual displayed text, or just have some fun replacing "Microsoft" with "MicroSuck" wherever it appears on a Web page.

http://www.privoxy.org/3.0.3/user-manual/filter-file.html

it should be in /etc/privoxy/ i'm using SUSE atm and it's in a different place on SUSE -
/var/lib/privoxy/etc

BTW, i think it would be great if we could use the filter set even though Privoxy by itself is very good :)

[Flavian]

Privoxy does not work on my PC. Well it did in the past... but it won't work anymore, after I reinstalled it!
It can't find the config file.

Actually it blocked too much on my Pc that's why I deleted it.
I was not very happyx with how to configure it because I couldn't figure out how to :/ was a little bit too difficult for me, so I just searched for an easier to use tool, like admuncher on windows.

Opera with the file posted above seems to fulfill it's purpose :)
Thanks though!
Flo

[Erik Trybom]

My favourite method is to use a user javascript that gets rid of all flash elements until I click them, and then disable GIF animation. This rids me of most annoying ads. I don't mind ads all that much, but when they move or sound and bog down my cpu they have to go.

[ice60]

i just installed TOR, to be anonymous on the internet, and i had another look at Privoxy as they work together, anyway, i think you can just import the adblock filter to the default.action file, this is how the default filter looks

#####################################
# Generic block patterns by host:
###########################################
{+block}
ad*.
.*ads.
.ad.
*banner*.
count*.
*counter.so if you can just import adblock there it should be easy to setup -

sudo apt-get install privoxy
just this first time you might have to start it

sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy start
then

sudo gedit /etc/privoxy/default.action
and copy and paste the filter set to the place i showed above. i hope someone tries it out. i have other adblockers already, but i'd switch if it works OK. :)

will it work?

[ice60]

this bit might have to be changed

########################
# Defaults
########################
-add-header \
-block \
-crunch-outgoing-cookies \
-crunch-incoming-cookies \
-deanimate-gifs{last} \

change the
-block \

to this
+block \

i'm not sure though.

[go_beep_yourself]

I have a dual boot of ubuntu 7.10 64 bit and wintendo for gaming. I put a lot of open source applications into wintendo such as gnu gpg, firefox, 7-zip, etc. I installed the adblock firefox extension in Firefox. Many advertisements are not being blocked, so I need the Adblock filterg set extension also. However, when I try to install that. I get this error below. Can anyone help?

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=50281&stc=1&d=1195147389