Greetings comrades, I have been thinking of adding some easy way of adblocking to surf. My conclusion is, that it is not needed.
By changing the default parameters of surf to »‐ips«, which will disable all the scripts, the images and plugins by default, nothing wrong is loaded when some URI is opened. Then, based on what I want to see I en‐ able first images and then scripts and then maybe plugins. The only annoying part in this algorithm is that when scripts and images are enabled all ads are viewable and this can be filtered with complex solutions like adblock plus or some hosts filtering. Hosts filtering re‐ quires some callback to filter on a specific hosts file with >15k lines on every request. This could be optimized using better data structures, but still, the complexity is high. Such a feature would only be useful when you have to save on bandwith but need for a specific website all features enabled. I don’t really see enough benefit to justify some big callback communication for javascript loading and such, like a full adblock plus compatibility would require. What are you comrades thinking of this? Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
