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Comment on Another day, another deathbot by Gruntfuggly

Gruntfuggly — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:00:47 +0000

“a messenger of death for enemies of mankind”.

Looks a bit over-engineered for killing wasps?

Comment on House Syndrome (Quick to the point, to the point no faking). by JoJo

JoJo — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:18:58 +0000

@Gruntfuggly: Sometimes “lol” doesn’t cut it. If only you knew…

Comment on House Syndrome (Quick to the point, to the point no faking). by Gruntfuggly

Gruntfuggly — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:13:04 +0000

I must be getting old – I don’t get it at all…

But I do like the Weasels tag.

Comment on Political Apathy 6: Epic Fail by Political Apathy 7: The fall of the Empire (look, an Ewok) « OddCog.com

Political Apathy 7: The fall of the Empire (look, an Ewok) « OddCog.com — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:28:33 +0000

[...] I have previously noted here I was annoyed by the leaflets that presented the 2005 election results as evidence for the Greens [...]

Comment on Surfs up by JoJo

JoJo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:50:48 +0000

@Gruntfuggly: I don’t want to download adverts that I don’t want to see, I pay for the bandwidth, so I choose what I download. I will definitely take another look at Chromium though, especially if it enables selective scripting white listing. Thanks for the heads up.

Comment on Surfs up by Gruntfuggly

Gruntfuggly — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:41:50 +0000

Why is it important not to download them? By downloading and then hiding, you keep everybody happy…

The latest Chromium build has content settings enable so you can black list or white list javascripts from sites.

You can also block plugins from sites – works with your link to Giorgio Maone’s page…

Comment on Surfs up by JoJo

JoJo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:53:10 +0000

@Gruntfuggly: CSS hiding might prevent adverts from being displayed, but it does not prevent them from being downloaded and it does nothing to guard against scripting attacks. I believe that Chromium and Chrome (I did try both) are both lacking in a NoScript type plugin.

Comment on Surfs up by Gruntfuggly

Gruntfuggly — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:45:39 +0000

Well it might be easily coded around, but I honestly don’t see any adverts. If it works in practice, surely that’s good enough?

If you haven’t tried Chromium (not Chrome – I’d rather be free of Google if I can) I’d recommend giving it a go…

Comment on Surfs up by JoJo

JoJo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:48:50 +0000

@Gruntfuggly: As Giorgio Maone explains in the article I linked to, the Chrome ad blockers can be easily coded around, besides which, how are you controlling flash, javascript and everything else?

Comment on Surfs up by Gruntfuggly

Gruntfuggly — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:08:25 +0000

I use AdThwart in Chromium and I can honestly say adverts are not a problem – it allows you to add new filters, and whitelist sites. I never thought I’d jump ship from Firefox – I love the extensibility of it, but since swapping to Chromium, whenever I’ve gone back to Firefox it feels like I’m browsing through treacle…