Adblock Plus Suggestion

scoob8000 · Post by **scoob8000** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:48 pm

Here's something I would love to see.

I surf from several different computers, so bookmark synchronizer is one of my favorite extensions.

I love adblock and adblock plus, but most subscriptions end up blocking stuff I don't want blocked. I would love to see the functionality to maintain my own subscription so to speak. If I add a filter on one pc, it gets synchronized to my other PC's next time I fire them up.

This could work just like the bookmark tool even, upload whatever file the filters are stored in to a FTP when you close the browser, and download them when you open the browser..

MonztA · Post by **MonztA** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:43 pm

Why not just upload your fliter.txt on a webspace and subscribe to it on your other computer?

scoob8000 · Post by **scoob8000** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:46 pm

Thats actually what I have been doing, but it gets old when you want to update..

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:04 pm

I guess that's more or less http://adblockplus.org/blog/extension-i ... block-list

scoob8000 · Post by **scoob8000** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:29 pm

Very much like that, but more along the idea of using ones own private FTP server.

Even if adblock plus could automatically import and export the filters.txt to a specific directory I bet I could hack apart (with permission) one of the bookmark sync extensions..

It would just be a matter of changing what file it upload/downloads to/from the server..

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:01 am

Malte Kraus aka Dr.Evil has a solution for a private web server he uses to update his filter list (AFAIK it isn't using FTP but rather a PHP script on the server). I guess you can ask him about it (see his forum profile).

Dr. Evil · Post by **Dr. Evil** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:46 pm

what I have now can be found at http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/adb ... Chrome.js/ You're right, no FTP at this time but a php script that does some crazy backup stuff probably nobody but me would like to have. It even uses a sqlite database to store the filters instead of creating simple text file. So I don't think this is something a user (scoob8000) would like to have.

I want to change that, make it more usable, add FTP and such, but that's all future. Maybe I'll even add this hosting thing discussed in the blog entry however this would largely depend on the Mozdev admins being ok with burning that much traffic.

scoob8000 · Post by **scoob8000** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:29 am

Don't underestimate my geekdom..

I like fiddling around with PHP stuff anyway, I'm by no means a programmer or anything like that..

I'll have to take a look at sqlite. I do have mysql on my webserver however.

I'll take a look!

thanks

Dr. Evil · Post by **Dr. Evil** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:22 am

I just finished the work on the FTP upload extension: http://adblockfilters.mozdev.org/installation.html