Ad Filtering WorldofWarcraft.com

by Squid on October 21, 2009

I have updated my post about configuring Privoxy to clean up the ads on WorldOfWarcraft.com.  The new user.filter removes most of the white blocks on the wow homepage that Privoxy left behind already.  This also fixes the forum filtering so that the post pages are full width again.  Unfortunately it doesn’t block any of the flash cross-promotion of their products, but it takes care of all the external advertisements at least.

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