Skyfire's privacy policy reveals some interesting things. Most notably that they claim to have access to all the sites that you visit using their browser. With that description, Skyfire might be closer to Deepfish, functioning more like a web preprocessor/cache than a full browser.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=363999
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=363205&page=2
Nylo said:
Skyfire's privacy policy reveals some interesting things. Most notably that they claim to have access to all the sites that you visit using their browser. With that description, Skyfire might be closer to Deepfish, functioning more like a web preprocessor/cache than a full browser.
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Have you used Opera Mini before? It does the same thing. They both use a proxy server/program on their end to load the page quickly, and send a compressed version to your phone so it loads quickly on your end.
Hey here a short tutorial how block Layer-Ads with IE without installing extra Add-Ons!
http://scilor.sc.funpic.de/ieAdBlock.html
lol, just lol
the moment i enter the site, it gives me a popup ad!
Never noticed it:
Firefox + ad-block + no-script..
Wow still people using IE
I don´t have that problem with my Opera
I need the IE for testing purposes so it is nice to block ads on free webhosting services
The Nook Color is my first entry into Android, and coming from webOS where the homebrew community created an adblock patch that blocks ads in the browser and inside apps, is there something similar for Android?
Ads slow down any browser and are just annoying in the Google Reader app.
Can anything be done?
It can be done in a variety of ways. Just search. Keep in mind, doing so can be considered piracy, as ads are blocked in apps that use the ads as revenue.
I don't think its against rules to say what you want its 'adfree android' in the market. It's been featured on xda, and mentioned in a billion posts.
I used a different way to block ads on my laptop using Google Chrome. This works differently from AdBlock. This is a manual way. A bit difficult to grasp hold off though.
So basically using Google Chrome's JavaScript console you take off the bits of code that represent the ads and the ads vanish.
I was wondering whether this could be implemented somehow in an application. This app would run the website. Then you would get a similar version of the Javascript console, you would take off the ads and then the app would let you access the rest of the website.
This could be an amazing add-on for a web browser.
Here's link to a How-to I made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59MI4e7J3w&context=C364178cADOEgsToPDskKvHDuKcmE4emuZg8UD6I7g
[PLEASE A MOD MOVE THIS TO A DEVELOPMENT FORUM] Sorry, did not realise while posting.
You should do some reading and learn (if you need to) Javascript (and jQuery) and look into writing a Chrome extension that would remove elements from a page with a right-click -> delete type action. Also, with Chrome you can get to the element much quicker. Right-click and do "Inspect element". It opens the dom explorer with the selected element highlighted so you can just right-click it and "delete node". Much quicker than manually scrolling through the dom.
Incidentally, the only problem with doing it manually is that the hidden elements are there next time you visit the site, or if you refresh the page.
Thanks. Im just a 17 year old kid with big dreams
Just working on getting my way around VB and Java. Will try to learn something about jQuery after my prelims end.
hateem said:
Thanks. Im just a 17 year old kid with big dreams
Just working on getting my way around VB and Java. Will try to learn something about jQuery after my prelims end.
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If you're going to be doing some Java then that would be a good intro for JavaScript, which is a web based scripting language, but it has its origins in the same roots as Java so there are similarities in syntax.
I was an 8 year old kid with big dreams I stuck with them and I've now been working as a professional developer, writing windows software, mobile software and web applications for about 16 years. If it's what you want then stick at it. You're post proves you have the right mix of creativity and curiosity needed to persist with development. I just hope you're good at maths too
thanks it was helpfull
Blocking just the visible page content will never be a 100% proof. There are plenty of javascript ads that generate the content on the fly.
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Blocking just the visible page content will never be a 100% proof. There are plenty of javascript ads that generate the content on the fly.
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So you just hide it once it's generated. There's always ways round it. Just nothing generic.
hateem said:
I used a different way to block ads on my laptop using Google Chrome. This works differently from AdBlock. This is a manual way. A bit difficult to grasp hold off though.
So basically using Google Chrome's JavaScript console you take off the bits of code that represent the ads and the ads vanish.
I was wondering whether this could be implemented somehow in an application. This app would run the website. Then you would get a similar version of the Javascript console, you would take off the ads and then the app would let you access the rest of the website.
This could be an amazing add-on for a web browser.
Here's link to a How-to I made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59MI4e7J3w&context=C364178cADOEgsToPDskKvHDuKcmE4emuZg8UD6I7g
[PLEASE A MOD MOVE THIS TO A DEVELOPMENT FORUM] Sorry, did not realise while posting.
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thanks for sharing this with us, this will come in handy
Archer said:
So you just hide it once it's generated. There's always ways round it. Just nothing generic.
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If you don't mind do it on each page refresh, go for it...dealing with the source is the way to go, not like this.
I personally don't use Chrome, I prefer Firefox and AdBlock there works magic, it works at the root of the ads and also allows block visible parts on the page as well.
Revenue generation
You know you shouldn't really be blocking those ads as it helps pay for these sites, including xdadevelopers. Those ads are the key to keeping these very informative sites free to everyone. If there are certain advertisements that bother you, then I suggest finding something that blocks only certain ads, say just block popups but not the banner types.
I don't mind ads at all on websites like XDA and most others. I was referring to websites that ask you to complete surveys and select ads in order to reveal their content. I was frustrated with the general concept and the limitations that Ad blockers had.
The regular ad is ok, but ad infested websites is what I dislike.
They wish to monetise from the content they have, that is ok. But when people start getting greedy, that becomes a problem.
So, as there are countless members of this community, i thought it would be best to ask here.
Im getting tired of firefox so i switched to IE9. I use the tracking protection feature which is basically a built in adblocker etc. Unfortunately, all the list's that exist for the filter, sadly sucks. One claims to have all the same things imported from Adblock Plus which is a firefox addon and its the best adblocker ive used. Never 1 add or pop up. But anyways, all the lists suck. Is there any programs or secret lists i could use that dont show up on the website? I love IE9 its just annoying that its adblock ability's suck.. It blocks some adds but not pops up and it makes a lot of websites have issues working..
Ive looked through cnet but most have to be paid for.. does adblock plus have a version for windows and not just firefox and chrome?
ReapersDeath said:
So, as there are countless members of this community, i thought it would be best to ask here.
Im getting tired of firefox so i switched to IE9. I use the tracking protection feature which is basically a built in adblocker etc. Unfortunately, all the list's that exist for the filter, sadly sucks. One claims to have all the same things imported from Adblock Plus which is a firefox addon and its the best adblocker ive used. Never 1 add or pop up. But anyways, all the lists suck. Is there any programs or secret lists i could use that dont show up on the website? I love IE9 its just annoying that its adblock ability's suck.. It blocks some adds but not pops up and it makes a lot of websites have issues working..
Ive looked through cnet but most have to be paid for.. does adblock plus have a version for windows and not just firefox and chrome?
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For IE9 you'll want to visit this link:
http://wiredhut.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-in-one-adblock-resource-fanboys.html
Basically all you're doing is adding fanboys adblock list to IE9 by clicking the "Add TPL" link here:
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/ie.html