bfilter-gui

Langue: en

Version: July 2006 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

BFilter-gui - An ad-filtering web proxy using heuristic ad-detection algorithms

SYNOPSIS

bfilter-gui

DESCRIPTION

BFilter is a web proxy that uses effective heuristic ad-detection algorithms to remove banner adverts, popups and webbugs from web pages. The traditional blocklist based approach is also implemented, but it is mostly used for dealing with false positives. Unlike other tools that require constant updates of their blocklists, bfilter manages to remove over 90% of adverts even with an empty blocklist!

All processing is done on the fly, it doesn't load the whole page or image before processing. It uses heuristic and regex-based approaches to detect adverts and webbugs. It also uses a Javascript engine to combat Javascript generated adverts and popups. -P This is version with GUI (Gtk).

The web proxy supports the following features;

o HTTP/0.9 - HTTP/1.1 support
o Persistent connections (HTTP/1.1 only)
o Pipelining (HTTP/1.1 only)
o HTTP compression
o Forwarding to another proxy

However, it does not support CONNECT requests typically used for HTTPS.

FILES

The default configuration settings (rules and filters) for bfilter-gui are in files located underneath the /etc/bfilter.

User configuration is in ~/.bfilter.

For the base configuration the config and config.default files are used. For the URL pattern matching the urls and urls.local files are used. For the content filtering the filters/ directory may contain files specifying groups of filters and whether they are enabled.

BUGS

Please report any bugs you may find to:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bfilter

AUTHOR

Joseph Artsimovich <joseph@tts.lt>
http://bfilter.sourceforge.net

This manual page was written by Vedran Furac <vedranf@riteh.hr>

SEE ALSO

bfilter(1), regex(7)