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A: dng
Assumpte: Re: [DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.


> On 3 Dec 2020, at 19:12, Edward Bartolo via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Lately, I am noticing Waterfox has lost the ability to display my
> add-ons, which are AdGuard AdBlocker and NoScript. I had about two
> more in the past, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to have
> any that work. My preferences are an ad-free internet experience, or
> at least, if not entirely ad-free, with intrusive adds blocked, and a
> font rendering with a large than normal font size. The latter, is
> provided by Waterfox itself, but adds are favoured to intrude and
> steal bandwidth and processing power which I do not have much of.
>
> I would like to ask whether a software proxy running on the same
> machine would be able to provide adequate ad filtering. I have
> iptables installed, but it is not configured and configuration
> requires some networking knowledge which unfortunately I do not have.
> I tried to find a GUI front end for iptables, but failed to find what
> is suitable for my very limited networking knowledge.
>
> If you have other solutions which I did not think of, please suggest
> them. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
>
> Edward.


I’ve never used it myself, but the privoxy website mentions it does ad blocking and is available from devuan/debian repositories.