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Title: Bannerfilter on 5.5 / 5.6 anyone?
Post by: Dan on October 01, 2003, 02:05:51 PM

Anyone managed to get Bannerfilter working on 5.5 or 5.6? Or is there another package out there which filters ads/pop ups?

Title: Re: Bannerfilter on 5.5 / 5.6 anyone?
Post by: Doug M. on October 01, 2003, 11:37:25 PM

Yes it works on 5.6. Just follow the directions in the README file and add a custom template fragment for your squid.conf file.

wget http://www.phroggy.com/files/unix/bannerfilter-1.21.tar.gz

tar -zxvf bannerfilter-1.21.tar.gz

mv bannerfilter-1.21 /usr/local/squid/

cd /usr/local/squid/bannerfilter-1.21/

mv www /home/e-smith/files/primary/html/bannerfilter

mv bannerfilter.conf /etc/

# Test redirector.pl by running the script, typing something, and making
# sure you get something back (generally the same thing you typed).  Press
# Ctrl-C to stop.  Yes, this step is important.  If you get an error, fix it
# before proceeding.

./redirector.pl

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/squid/squid.conf

echo "redirect_program /usr/local/squid/bannerfilter-1.21/redirector.pl" > /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/squid/squid.conf/81Bannerfilter

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/squid/squid.conf

service squid restart

Title: Re: Bannerfilter on 5.5 / 5.6 anyone?
Post by: Ted on October 02, 2003, 07:11:00 AM

Does this slow down my browsing speed?

Title: Re: Bannerfilter on 5.5 / 5.6 anyone?
Post by: Doug M. on October 02, 2003, 09:54:07 AM

If anything you may see a slight speed increase since the banner replacements are pulled from your server instead of downloading the actual banners from the internet.

Title: Re: Bannerfilter on 5.5 / 5.6 anyone?
Post by: Jens Kruuse on October 02, 2003, 03:23:54 PM

You didn't search too hard, Dan. :-)
http://www.e-smith.org/bboard/search.php?search=bannerfilter&f=0&match=1&date=0&fldsubject=1&fldbody=1

(Leads to: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14235.msg54149#msg54149)

It still works very well on my machine. My wife has gotten so used to it that she was surprised at the amount of junk shown on most sites when she used a friend's pc.  :-D

Title: Re: Bannerfilter on 5.5 / 5.6 anyone?
Post by: Dan on October 02, 2003, 07:01:34 PM

Thanks Doug M. works a treat.