Adblock Plus Ported to Webkit
IRC member foobar’ has come up with a port of AdBlockPlus for the G1. (Update: Now with source!)
No code is available yet, but check out the screenshots:
I’ll update with more info when I get some. (And some code – he’s waiting on licensing questions right now.)
Updated: The code is available!From the announcement:
Since my port of AdBlockPlus to WebKit is applicable to far more than just the HTC vogue (or even just android), here is the code. Unfortunately, WebKit doesn’t have content-policy plugins like FireFox, and since my goal was to just get this working in the quickest, dirtiest way possible, this is implemented as a very very sloppy hack to the WebCore code. Here is the patch for android. This only includes element-blocking, since that suffices to block everything on sites I visit on android, and my first shot at element hiding wasn’t too efficient. Here is the patch. To use it,
1. Apply patch
2. Place filter list (you can find a good one here) in /sdcard/block.txt
3. Run browser app. In settings, “Load Images” is now “Block ads” (see comment in patch for reasoning behind this; below is a patch to change text) If you have any suggestions for how to move this into a plugin, please let me know.
Enjoy!
Webkit AdblockPlus Patch (319) Webkit AdblockPlus Text Change Patch (242)
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