Re: [dev] [surf] adblocking

From: Kurt H Maier <khm-suckless_AT_intma.in>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:34:59 -0500

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:33:20PM +0100, Troels Henriksen wrote:
> Kurt H Maier <khm-suckless_AT_intma.in> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:30:38PM +0000, Nick wrote:
> >>
> >> The way I do it with a local proxy means that said requests are
> >> stripped out of the HTML before reaching the browser. DNS based
> >> things will presumably fail immediately with /etc/hosts, rather
> >> than time out.
> >
> > But you're still wasting the bandwidth. It's insane.
>
> The bandwidth to the local proxy? How exactly is anything being wasted?
>

Well, he said the "requests are stripped out of the HTML" which doesn't
make a ton of sense. Is it requesting all elements in a page and then
stripping them, or what?
Received on Tue Nov 20 2012 - 16:34:59 CET