Fun with Privoxy

[byuu]

So, I've been messing around with Privoxy lately. It's like AdBlock on crack. Figured I'd share what I have, see if anyone else came up with anything cool.

I'll list the filter followed by the action. As always, add actions to the bottom of the file, to skip the whitelisting section.

With xkcd, you always have to mouse over images, and wait for the caption to appear. Then you have to read fast before it disappears. This filter will put the image title above the image. Always visible, and without the smallcaps.

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FILTER: xkcd Always show image titles
s|(<img src=".*" )title="(.*)" (alt=".*" />)|<div style='font-size: 0.8em; font-variant: normal;'>$2</div><br/>$1$3|gU

{ +filter{xkcd} +prevent-compression }
xkcd.com
.xkcd.com

Slashdot has this new annoying-ass comment box that floats around the page with you. This will nuke it from existence.

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FILTER: slashdot Remove comment box
s/(<div class=['"]commentwrap['"])/$1 style='display:none;'/U

{ +filter{slashdot} }
slashdot.org
.slashdot.org

And, my personal favorite, word filters. This one will convert GNU/Linux to Linux. Makes reading this page hilarious. This one is applied to everything, for obvious reasons. You can easily add more filters below to handle things like British<>American, etc.

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FILTER: linux Annoyance
s|GNU/Linux|Linux|g

{ +deanimate-gifs +filter{linux} }
/

[grinvader]

Privoxy is nice.

[DOLLS (J) [!]]

Why are you capitalizing the second word?

[kode54]

Presumably filter description following one word filter name.

[byuu]

Presumably filter description following one word filter name.

Right.

Here's another one to bypass Hotmail's "Upgrade Your Browser" bullshit nag screen. Though to be honest, I'm 99% ready to drop that e-mail at this point.

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FILTER: hotmail Ignore browser upgrade nagscreen
s|(<a href=['"])(.*)(['"]>continue to Windows Live Hotmail</a>)|<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=$1">|igU

{ +filter{hotmail} +prevent-compression }
.hotmail.com
.live.com

Code like that will work on other click-through ads, too. Eg the ones on deviantart, etc.

[gllt]

My Privoxy in Arch is screwy so I can't get these working. Ah.