Ad blocking in Google Chrome

Posted on September 5, 2008 by probabilityZero

I’ve been using  for days now as my main browser in Windows, and I’m very happy with it. It’s ridiculously fast (around 3x faster according to this test). One thing it lacks, however, is an ad blocker. Luckily, I have been using Privoxy for a while, and it blocks ads regardless of what browser you’re using, as well as do a few other helpful things. This is how you set it up:

  1. Download and install Privoxy. Start it and set it to automatically run every time you start your PC.
  2. Open your proxy settings. In Vista you can get there by going to Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Internet Options ->  Connections -> LAN Settings.
  3. Check “Use a proxy server for your LAN” and type “127.0.0.1″ for the address and “8118″ for the port (without the quotes). Check “Bypass proxy server for local addresses.”

Now all your browsing should be going through Privoxy, and it’ll block out unwanted ads.

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I'm a rather boring, geeky college student. Most of my time is spent at a computer, reading a book, or sitting in (mostly uninteresting) classes. My hobbies include reading, blogging, creating and running websites, creating amateur video games, arguing incessantly on discussion forums, and buying books on amazon.com because I'm too lazy to go to the library.
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One Response to Ad blocking in Google Chrome

  1. Anonymous says:
    September 9, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    no extensions = not as good as firefox. pretty tho

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