Ad-blocker for Chrome

[Graham Todd]

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:50:54 +0530
galt <galt at gmx.ch> wrote:

> Anything that works?

Privoxy and an up-to-date Hosts file. You can get one from: 

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Open a text editor in root mode then just copy the file and append it
(add it) to the existing text in /etc/hosts, but omit or comment out
the line that is in the copied file which says:

127.0.0.1  localhost

but not in the text that was already in /etc/hosts. Then copy the
new file back to /etc/hosts.

www.mvps.org regularly updates its hosts file so its worth having in
your armoury, as its a bit more up to date.

If you are using Ubuntu (not sure about Xubuntu or Kubuntu) there's an
app called gnome-network-properties which can set Privoxy settings
system-wide so you don't have to set them for each browser.  That will,
however, ignore the URLs you have in your ignore list, which shouldn't
be a problem.  Just set each browser to accept the system proxy
settings.

HTH

-- 
Graham Todd