I recently downloaded Internet Explorer 8 RC1 and was playing with the InPrivate Filtering feature. I think that this feature could be used as an Ad Blocker. I converted the adblock plus filters into xml format understood by IE and imported them in the InPrivate Filtering settings. Many websites worked fine while some (e.g. yahoo mail) appeared to be broken. I am sure that with a little tweaking of the rules it will be possible to get better results.
You can get the xml file I generated here.
Alternatively, you could paste your adblock rules in the text area below and click submit. You will get back the xml content in the same text area.
Edit InPrivate filtering options that can be found in right bottom corner in IE 8. Go to advanced options and import the xml file just created.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Internet Explorer 8 Ad Blocking
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3 comments:
Great page! I have been looking for a way to do this for a while.
Couple of issues.
1) The TXT to XML converter is placing "NaNdescription>" instead of ItemTagDescriptionTag at the begining of each entry. Easily fixed with a search/replace in notepad, but I just thought you should know.
2) It looks like it is the "Elements" section of easylist that is breaking yahoo/facebook. If I strip that section out, it works fine.
3) There are several sections in the easylist file. One is a whitelist. Those need to have the rule set to allow instead of block.
Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, I had trouble embedding javascript in the post.
It was extremely interesting for me to read that post. Thanx for it. I like such topics and anything connected to them. I definitely want to read more soon.
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