Google Chrome AdBlock with Privoxy
[update 2]
Check adsweep an adblock extension for chrome
[update]
other alternatives to my original solution:
- http://www.admuncher.com/
- http://bfilter.sourceforge.net/
- http://proximodo.sourceforge.net/
- http://www.adsweep.org/
Privoxy solution:
I love the new Google Chrome Browser, especially the…:
- - really fast render speed,
- - new tab page
- - and the ability to create a new window from a tab that you drop outside chrome.
Naturally, I am missing all my nice add-ons from Firefox, mainly the adblock add-on!
So I found an alternative solution: using Privoxy. Privoxy is a small web proxy that runs locally and has the ability to filter ads.
- 1. Download & install http://www.privoxy.org/
- 2. And then set Google chrome’s proxy options:
Options->Under the hood->change proxy settings->Lan Settings
Check: “Use a proxy server for your LAN”
And under advanced add proxy address 127.0.0.1 port 8118 for http and secure but leave ftp blank.
Now you can surf the web with Google Chrome and a lot less ads!
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I love the speed in Chrome, but this make surfing even faster…
Go get it! :)
/Brian
I couldn’t agree more on your opinion about Adblock. I surly missed it the first time I went to a site of mine. Awfull lot popups.
Well, thanks for the proxy tips but they don’t work here, shame.
Thanks… this did the trick and now I’m likely to use Chrome as my main browser.
Well I can get it to work with Firefox (which doesn’t really need it), but both IE and Chrome aren’t using it for some reason. :-(
…aaand, now it works….I’m a dumba$$…had to set the proxy settings on dialup for my aircard in my laptop, not just the LAN settings. Doh!
Works very well! Thank you so much!!! (Wiping tears of joy from my eyes…)
It’s brilliant !
it works like a charm
Thank you very very much
I think I’m hooked on Chrome and blocking ads is not something I can do without.
love it, :D chrome has just replaced my firefox
Thanks to you and privoxy, now Google Chrome doesn’t suck very badly… I’ll b using it 2nite!
Muchas gracias :D
This is the sh*t! Thanks a lot.
Is there a possibility to remove the “Request blocked by Privoxy: Catch…” message as well?
Regards,
VRM
I found Ad Muncher and it’s awesome. :D
It’s cruashing all the ads in every browser including chrome and it’s a LOT faster than privoxy.
http://www.admuncher.com
I’m computer dumb so forgive me. If I do this on my computer will it effect how other computers on my wireless network access the net?
Thanks
doesn’t work for french ads apparently… :( or I’m doing something wrong…
can’t believe people can actually surf without adblock… internet is SCARY without it!
Awesome!! Thank you so much!
Unfortunately it uses IE’s proxy settings, so if you change it for Chrome, it also changes it for IE. Also, if your company prohibits changing the proxy via policy (as mine does) then this method will not work. :(
this was good !!! it works, thanks a lot
@vrm: Yes, but it’s all based on the filter rules http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/quickstart.html#QUICKSTART-AD-BLOCKING
@tbass: No, it “only” affects the windows proxy settings => internet explorer, chrome, messenger, … all other programs that use this common setting (as stated correctly by rob)
@Marcus: yes ad muncher or other ad blocking software that uses a proxy works great, unfortunately ad muncher is not free.
Wow! All I can Say is WOW! Now how do I get Real Player to download video? lol
Thanks again.
I have the settings set up exactly how you describe but It is not working, when I try to open Privoxy it gives me this error
”Sep 03 blahblahblah Fatal Error: Can’t bind to 127.0.0.1:8118: There may be another privoxy or some other proxy running on port 8118.”
I dont even really know what a proxy is so Im pretty sure I never had anything else set up. I am on a linksys router from cable modem what should I do?
Id really like to use chrome as my main browser if I can just get this adblocking working.
thx
@jon: you can check what application is already running on port 8118 with this tool http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx
you can also try to start Privoxy on a different port: in Privoxy under “Options-> Edit Main Configuration”: change the line “listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118″
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Ooohhh Snap
That was exactly what i was looking for…
Bless You Boris Fritscher
cool, works well — but there isnt a way to manually remove ads? or add new ads to the filter list
@glayshure: yes you can edit the config files directly (see examples inside the files or check the manual) user.action, default.filter, default action
Or you can also activate the web editing in config.txt set “enable-edit-actions 1″, then you can access the filters by browsing to http://config.privoxy.org/show-status
I agree that it’s not very user friendly :(
Thanks. Chrome has just replaced FF as my main browser.
:)
Too bad it doesn’t allow page per page blocking of ads or exceptions etc…
Or is there something else I’m missing :)
I’m fiddling with Google Chrome and Privoxy; using it increased DL times by about 15-20% (http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/), but it was super easy to set up and works great for blocking ads – just install Privoxy, configure Chrome and leave the Privoxy config alone.
… one giant leap
Just what I was looking for, thanks!!
Is there a way to disable the Privoxy tray icon?
@Dee: you can disable the animation in the config.txt file with “activity-animation 0″
you can also hide the icon by going to “Taskbar and Start Menu Properties > Notification Area > Customize ” and select always hide.
I am getting this error after installing and changing settings:
Error 104 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_FAILED): The attempt to connect to the server failed.
I also noticed the following line when Privoxy loads:
Sep 05 16:05:40.718 Privoxy(00000720) Info: No thread-safe PRNG implemented for your platform. Using weak ‘randomization’ factor which will limit the already questionable usefulness of header-time-randomizing actions (disabled by default).
Any thoughts?
Privoxy is better than nothing but doesn’t catch nearly as many ads as adblock.
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Thanks, that fixed one of the problems with Chrome. The other is the reason I just uninstalled it and probably will not load it again. ** While CLOSED (not running in the background), it constantly is trying to access the internet via Googleupdate. :(
@David: where have you seen ads? ALL ads have been blocked during my browsing…
Privoxy is spectacular – thanks Boris!
I’ve looked through the manual and it’s a little bit difficult for me:
Can anyone tell me the syntax to:
- block all flash from a site
- unblock all flash from a site
@Shlomi, try something like this in user.action file:
{ +block{My Flash block} +handle-as-empty-document}
http://www.example.com/.*\.swf
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started working instantly… no ads what so ever… im very happy with this… i will use privoxy as its a great sw and as soon as google releases an official adblocker i will switch on to it… thanks
Fantastics. This works great.
thanks very much!
“I’m fiddling with Google Chrome and Privoxy; using it increased DL times by about 15-20%”
Not any more – DL speeds are the same as with Ad Muncher, namely about the same as w/no proxy. No ads with either one.
Re: Bookmarks: In FF had about 10 folders each with dozens of bookmarks – I managed to get all 10 folders onto Chrome’s bookmark toolbar: dragged each one individually, tho now I forget how.
I hacked-away the auto-updating, and tho the install location still bugs me, I’m sure they’ll fix that with a real release.
New browser!
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Going thru rocket science for a damn browser.
Cool!
It works…and it’s FREE!
AdBlock plus is only one half of the problem, because the NoScript plugin for FF is much more stronger.
Yeah. So I move to Chrome for the “really faster” and then mess it all up with the crawling Privoxy. No thanks.
Sorry firefox you just got replaced
Privoxy is just way too complicated. BFilter is absolutely superior as described here: http://eqqon.com/index.php/User:Henon
One step forward (anticrash)
and three steps back:
privacy borrowing: import from firefox
zero in chrome adblocking: loopback filtering is entertaining (proxomitron)
extensions MIA
…
and I’m sure it won’t bother you contratheists but I cannot load
masstimes.org
in chrome because nanny chrome doesn’t like some of the ad content, but provides no easy way to show the safe content and exclude the bad
:(