Journal Qzukk's Journal: Web privacy idea 2
Proxy Command.
Step 1: Missile Command, but as a web proxy. Every outgoing connection = 1 incoming missile, labeled with the hostname. The proxy holds onto the connection until the missile hits the city at the bottom. Shoot down the rocket to prevent the connection to tracker.facebook.com or whatever. Speed would be adjustable.
Step 2: add auto-targeting by hostname, so you don't have to click on tracker.facebook.com over and over.
Step 3: whitelist hostnames to avoid having to wait for the connection.
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Step 5: browse the internet and watch the fireworks display
Until that's possible ... (Score:2)
Maybe while launching a second and third and 4th request for all those nasty pieces of crap, but downloading them really slowly (tarpit). And continuing to do so when I'm
Re: (Score:2)
Interesting idea, but it kind of defeats the whole purpose of blocking them: wasting my bandwidth. I'm also not sure that you'd be able to "download slowly". For larger requests you can refuse to empty the kernel TCP buffer, but buffers are pretty large these days, they'd probably pump the whole thing out to you before you can start sending ICMP source quench packets to slow them down.
Privoxy does something like this, but it's not going to request the crappy scripts, and especially not multiple times.