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!