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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
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<pkgmetadata>
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<!-- maintainer-needed -->
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<longdescription>BFilter is a filtering web proxy. It was originally intended for removing banner ads only, but at some point
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it has been extended to remove popups and webbugs. It can't be used as a general purpose filtering proxy
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because it was never intended this way.
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For example you can't just block an arbitrary object, you can only hint the ad detector in its decision making.
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The main advantage BFilter has over the similar tools is its heuristic ad detection algorithm. The traditional
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blocklist-based approach is also implemented, but it's mostly used for dealing with false positives. Unlike
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other tools that require constant updates of their blocklists, BFilter manages to remove over 90% of ads
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even with an empty blocklist!
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The javascript generated ads are not a problem for BFilter, as it has a javascript engine to combat them.
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BFilter is expected work with any browser that supports proxies (nearly any browser does), and can forward
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requests to another HTTP proxy.</longdescription>
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<upstream>
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<remote-id type="sourceforge">bfilter</remote-id>
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</upstream>
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</pkgmetadata>
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