bfilter-gui(1)
NAME
BFilter-gui - An ad-filtering web proxy using heuristic ad-detection
algorithms
SYNOPSIS
bfilter-gui
DESCRIPTION
BFilter is a web proxy that uses effective heuristic ad-detection algorithms to remove banner adverts, popups and webbugs from web pages. The
traditional blocklist based approach is also implemented, but it is
mostly used for dealing with false positives. Unlike other tools that
require constant updates of their blocklists, bfilter manages to remove
over 90% of adverts even with an empty blocklist!
All processing is done on the fly, it doesn't load the whole page or
image before processing. It uses heuristic and regex-based approaches
to detect adverts and webbugs. It also uses a Javascript engine to combat Javascript generated adverts and popups. -P This is version with
GUI (Gtk).
The web proxy supports the following features;
o HTTP/0.9 - HTTP/1.1 support
o Persistent connections (HTTP/1.1 only)
o Pipelining (HTTP/1.1 only)
o HTTP compression
o Forwarding to another proxy
However, it does not support CONNECT requests typically used for HTTPS.
FILES
The default configuration settings (rules and filters) for bfilter-gui are in files located underneath the /etc/bfilter.
User configuration is in ~/.bfilter.
For the base configuration the config and config.default files are
used. For the URL pattern matching the urls and urls.local files are
used. For the content filtering the filters/ directory may contain
files specifying groups of filters and whether they are enabled.
BUGS
Please report any bugs you may find to:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bfilter
AUTHOR
Joseph Artsimovich <joseph@tts.lt>
http://bfilter.sourceforge.net
This manual page was written by Vedran Furac <vedranf@riteh.hr>