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Dec. 13th, 2001 11:18 pmI had a bit of a scare with Proxominton (alias SpaceBison). A NetworkWorld Fusion article pointed to it, and I thought the article said "It's spyware."
I reread the article. It's not. It's a ad remover proxy server that can be used to detect spyware. And it's free.
In otherwords, it's a cheap (free) add on to IE and Netscape 4.x to filter out content when all you need is Mozilla 0.9.x or Netscape 6 (which uses the Mozilla engine underneath).
So? What's the deal? Why pull a new browzer when you can pull this small peice of software? (I actually say do both, because it'll log the interaction... but then I programmed my own on PerlMonks. Look for wsproxy, but in the meanwhile.)
Mozilla has a small hack in it to prevent pop-anywheres while a document is loading. Which is nice, because I've gone to many sites and I don't get X10 or any porn popping up on me. On top of that, it has a "Block images from this server" feature, accessible by the right mouse button menu. If that doesn't take care of it, they're working on banning Javascript on a site-by-site and operation-by-operation basis!.
So users, pull a copy of Mozilla. It's free. Web Developers? Pull a copy too, and make sure your site works with it (I found that IE and Mozilla are W3C spec compliant). For those who can't run Mozilla for some reason, pull the source code anyway and *PORT* it to your system. That's open source for you baby!
I reread the article. It's not. It's a ad remover proxy server that can be used to detect spyware. And it's free.
In otherwords, it's a cheap (free) add on to IE and Netscape 4.x to filter out content when all you need is Mozilla 0.9.x or Netscape 6 (which uses the Mozilla engine underneath).
So? What's the deal? Why pull a new browzer when you can pull this small peice of software? (I actually say do both, because it'll log the interaction... but then I programmed my own on PerlMonks. Look for wsproxy, but in the meanwhile.)
Mozilla has a small hack in it to prevent pop-anywheres while a document is loading. Which is nice, because I've gone to many sites and I don't get X10 or any porn popping up on me. On top of that, it has a "Block images from this server" feature, accessible by the right mouse button menu. If that doesn't take care of it, they're working on banning Javascript on a site-by-site and operation-by-operation basis!.
So users, pull a copy of Mozilla. It's free. Web Developers? Pull a copy too, and make sure your site works with it (I found that IE and Mozilla are W3C spec compliant). For those who can't run Mozilla for some reason, pull the source code anyway and *PORT* it to your system. That's open source for you baby!
