Re: Squid Overkill? (Speed Up Web Surfing)

Running Squid on a single user machine will give you no advantage
whatsoever and will only consume disk space on a user's machine for
a redundant copy of what is stored in the browser's cache.

I agree.

For personal workstation use, the current approach to deal with this
problem is to use a non-caching proxy server and to set up the URL
filters in the proxy server, rather than using /etc/hosts for purposes
it was not intended. The non-caching proxy server filters out not only
the black listed URLs, but also nullifies the associated delay logic
that makes the browser hang, waiting for the programmed in timeout delay.
The proxy server accomplishes this by doing an edit on the incoming HTML
before the web browser gets to see it, resulting in snappy performance
from the web browser.

True. I use SafeSquid for this purpose.
- It comes with a manageable cache.
- It allows me to use URL blacklist from urlblacklist.com and
shallalist.de
- allows me to use PCRE to block ads and banners, which makes the job
a lot easier.
- allows me to use the host list not only to block ads and banners
but also for blocking cookies from / to such hosts.
- content rewrite (editing HTML pages) can be used to remove codes
like activex, java script, pop-up, etc.
- integrates with clamav for real-time virus protection when you are
online (also includes phishing sites).
- pre-fetching enhances surfing (acts like an internet accelerator)

There are many other things that you can do with SafeSquid -
http://howtoforge.com/trip_search?keys=safesquid+tids%3A9

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