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Originally Posted by astra
Really?
I didn't know chrome has add-ons.
Does IE have it too?
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There is a piece of software called privoxy.
You install privoxy.
It tells you it is listening at some port (perhaps 8008).
Privoxy is a proxy server. It runs on the same computer as browser, at an address localhost, (127.0.0.1)
Now you configure your browser to use proxy for http protocol. Address of the proxy is 127.0.0.1, port 8008 (or whatever port privoxy tells you it is listening at, or you can configure your own)
Privoxy comes pre-configured with many, many addresses of various advertisers. It filters html and image files as it serves them to browser, so you can do ANYTHING. Even change some string to other string, so you can even change every single occurrence of string Microsoft to Micro$oft.
Privoxy works on many operating systems, with the vast majority of browsers. You can configure it to do very interesting things to html files and images going through it. It is a little bit outdated at the moment (especially database), but if you are not afraid to change some text configuration mode, you can add an address of some annoying advertiser very easily.