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by wtbob 3945 days ago
Well, it certainly sucks less

Seriously though, I've found that most things from the suckless guys are pretty great. st is a perfect terminal; surf would be perfect if it had an ad blocker.

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Why would a web browser need an ad blocker? Do that in your HTTP proxy or DNS server. I recommend Polipo or Privoxy as I've had success integrating them with EasyList.
> Why would a web browser need an ad blocker? Do that in your HTTP proxy or DNS server.

In order to be able to perform URL-level blocking without a proxy; and in order to be able to perform context-sensitive blocking and CSS blocking at all.

It almost seems as if they are recreating Acme (plan9 editor).