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->4. Quickstart to Using <SPAN
+NAME="QUICKSTART">4. Quickstart to Using <SPAN
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>Privoxy</SPAN
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> <P
><H2
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><A
-NAME="QUICKSTART-AD-BLOCKING"
->4.1. Quickstart to Ad Blocking</A
-></H2
+NAME="QUICKSTART-AD-BLOCKING">4.1. Quickstart to Ad Blocking</H2
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> Ad blocking is but one of <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>
This section will provide a quick summary of ad blocking so
you can get up to speed quickly without having to read the more extensive
- information provided below, though this is highly recommeneded.</P
+ information provided below, though this is highly recommended.</P
><P
> First a bit of a warning ... blocking ads is much like blocking SPAM: the
more aggressive you are about it, the more likely you are to block
>"problem"</SPAN
> sites, and to spend more time adjusting the
configuration to solve these unintended consequences. In short, there is
- not an easy way to eliminate <I
+ not an easy way to eliminate <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>all</I
+></SPAN
> ads. Either take
- the easy way and settle for <I
+ the easy way and settle for <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>most</I
+></SPAN
> ads blocked with the
default configuration, or jump in and tweak it for your personal surfing
habits and preferences.</P
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
> will perform the
- respective actions. If not, then nothing special happens. Futhermore, web
+ respective actions. If not, then nothing special happens. Furthermore, web
pages may contain embedded, secondary URLs that your web browser will
use to load additional components of the page, as it parses the
- original page's HTML content. An ad image for instance, is just a URL
+ original page's HTML content. An ad image for instance, is just an URL
embedded in the page somewhere. The image itself may be on the same server,
or a server somewhere else on the Internet. Complex web pages will have many
such embedded URLs.</P
>Privoxy</SPAN
>'s default configuration already does this
for all common image types (e.g. GIF), but there are many situations where this
- is not as easy to determine. So we'll force it in these cases. This is particularly
- important for ad blocking, since only if we know that it's an image, we can replace
- it by an image instead of the BLOCKED page, which would only result in a
+ is not so easy to determine. So we'll force it in these cases. This is particularly
+ important for ad blocking, since only if we know that it's an image of
+ some kind, can we replace it with an image of our choosing, instead of the
<SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+> BLOCKED page (which would only result in
+ a <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"broken image"</SPAN
-> icon. There are some limitations to this though. For
- instance, you can't just brute-force an image substituion for an entire HTML page
- in most situations.
+> icon). There are some limitations to this
+ though. For instance, you can't just brute-force an image substitution for
+ an entire HTML page in most situations.
</P
></LI
><LI
>block</A
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> action somewhere in the
- configuration, <I
+ configuration, <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>and</I
+></SPAN
>, it must also match an
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
><TBODY
><TR
><TD
-> <I
+> <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>pattern</I
-> - a checkboard pattern, so that an ad
+></SPAN
+> - a checkerboard pattern, so that an ad
replacement is obvious. This is the default.
</TD
></TR
><TBODY
><TR
><TD
-> <I
+> <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>blank</I
+></SPAN
> - A very small empty GIF image is displayed.
This is the so-called <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
><TBODY
><TR
><TD
-> <I
+> <SPAN
+CLASS="emphasis"
+><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>http://<URL></I
+></SPAN
> - A redirect to any image anywhere
of the user's choosing (advanced usage).
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> <DIV
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-></A
-><P
+NAME="AEN391"><P
><B
>Figure 1. Actions Files in Use</B
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-SRC="../images/files-in-use.jpg"
-ALT="Screenshot of Files in Use"
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>
HREF="actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES"
>Actions Files Tutorial</A
>.
- The ideas explained thererin also apply to the web-based editor.</P
+ The ideas explained therein also apply to the web-based editor.</P
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