How do YOU browse /prog/?

Currently using Firefox... every page refresh includes:


[22:38:53.261] GET http://dis.4chan.org/prog/ [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 343ms]
[22:38:53.627] GET http://static.4chan.org/css/dis/world4ch/global.css [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 1326ms]
[22:38:53.642] GET http://static.4chan.org/css/dis/world4ch/0ch.css [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 1342ms]
[22:38:53.649] GET http://static.4chan.org/css/dis/world4ch/print.css [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 1342ms]
[22:38:53.659] GET http://static.4chan.org/js/dis/styleswitcher.js [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 1342ms]
[22:38:53.669] GET http://static.4chan.org/js/dis/global.js [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 1342ms]
[22:38:53.678] GET http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 32ms]
[22:38:54.990] GET http://static.4chan.org/css/dis/world4ch/terminal.css [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 671ms]
[22:38:55.001] GET http://static.4chan.org/css/dis/world4ch/yotsuba.css [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 686ms]
[22:38:55.089] GET http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 16ms]
[22:38:55.099] GET http://static.4chan.org/image/dis/world4ch/ba.gif [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 671ms]
[22:38:55.119] GET http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel;r=1049778134;fpan=0;fpa=P0-1735707900-1317758114728;ns=0;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdis.4chan.org%2Fprog%2F;ref=http%3A%2F%2Fdis.4chan.org%2Fread%2Fprog%2F1317291280%2F1-40;ce=1;je=0;sr=1366x768x24;enc=n;ogl=;dst=1;et=1317760734982;tzo=-120;a=p-0bq3T16a3nFeM [HTTP/1.1 204 No Content 47ms]
[22:38:55.180] GET http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=5.1.7&utms=16&utmn=259954299&utmhn=dis.4chan.org&utmcs=UTF-8&utmsr=1366x768&utmsc=24-bit&utmul=nl&utmje=0&utmfl=-&utmdt=4chan%20BBS%20-%20Programming&utmhid=1071642701&utmr=http%3A%2F%2Fdis.4chan.org%2Fread%2Fprog%2F1317291280%2F1-40&utmp=%2Fprog%2F&utmac=UA-166538-1&utmcc=__utma%3D228619097.856403201.1317758115.1317758115.1317758288.2%3B%2B__utmz%3D228619097.1317758288.2.2.utmcsr%3Dgoogle%7Cutmccn%3D(organic)%7Cutmcmd%3Dorganic%7Cutmctr%3D%252Fprog%252F%2520commander%2520site%253Adis.4chan.org%3B&utmu=q~ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 16ms]

all these useless HTTP requests, a lot of them seem to be simply
for tracking who you are. there has to be a better way to
browse /prog/. what do you think?

i was thinking either one of two things:

1- write a simply HTTP proxy to anonymize your webtraffic by
filtering out certain things (<script>'s, cookies).

2- write a scraper/user interface for /prog/ using RACKET

1+1 GET

[23:03:14,516] GET http://dis.4chan.org/prog/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 844ms]
[23:03:15,060] GET http://static.4chan.org/css/dis/world4ch/global.css [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 2188ms]
[23:03:15,071] GET http://static.4chan.org/css/dis/world4ch/0ch.css [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 2203ms]
[23:03:15,088] GET http://static.4chan.org/css/dis/world4ch/print.css [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 2218ms]
[23:03:15,377] GET http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-0bq3T16a3nFeM.gif [undefined 32ms]
[23:03:17,614] GET http://static.4chan.org/image/dis/world4ch/ba.gif [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 1110ms]
[23:03:17,630] GET http://static.4chan.org/css/dis/world4ch/terminal.css [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 1094ms]
[23:03:17,642] GET http://static.4chan.org/css/dis/world4ch/yotsuba.css [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 1094ms]

It's your own responsibility to block tracking sites and cookies, it's not that hard.

I just learned how to use the spoiler tag, and now I'm shitposting on pork!

I just have the tracking shit blocked in the HOSTS file.

It's called NoScript.

>>7
You shouldn't be running a "security" extension created by a dipshit known to for his malicious hack against a competing extension^[1].

^{REFERENCES                   
[1]: http://hackademix.net/2009/05/04/dear-adblock-plus-and-noscript-users-dear-mozilla-community/}

>>7
I just disable Javascript in the browser configuration directly. Much safer.

For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer.  (I also have not net connection much of the time.)  To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.
It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

<-- [dubs] GET

>>8
thanks so much for this. I had no idea.

DNS      73     Standard query A dis.4chan.org
     25 45.404297   10.0.0.138            10.0.0.3              DNS      89     Standard query response A 204.152.204.168
     26 45.404641   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      62     asam > http [SYN] Seq=0 Win=65535 Len=0 MSS=1460 SACK_PERM=1
     27 45.482839   10.0.0.3              10.0.0.138            DNS      88     Standard query PTR 168.204.152.204.in-addr.arpa
     28 45.662589   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      62     http > asam [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=16384 Len=0 MSS=1360 SACK_PERM=1
     29 45.662618   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=65535 Len=0
     30 45.662768   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         HTTP     588    GET /prog/ HTTP/1.1
     31 45.875678   10.0.0.138            10.0.0.3              DNS      115    Standard query response PTR dis.4chan.org
     32 45.979745   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     33 45.983834   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     34 45.983866   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [ACK] Seq=535 Ack=2721 Win=65535 Len=0
     35 45.987815   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     36 46.150927   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [ACK] Seq=535 Ack=4081 Win=65535 Len=0
     37 46.243850   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     38 46.247338   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     39 46.247376   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [ACK] Seq=535 Ack=6801 Win=65535 Len=0
     40 46.263057   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     41 46.267058   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     42 46.267098   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [ACK] Seq=535 Ack=9521 Win=65535 Len=0
     43 46.673528   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     44 46.677452   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     45 46.677497   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [ACK] Seq=535 Ack=12241 Win=65535 Len=0
     46 46.681401   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     47 46.692002   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     48 46.692034   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [ACK] Seq=535 Ack=14961 Win=65535 Len=0
     49 46.695953   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     50 46.697234   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      444    [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     51 46.697258   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [ACK] Seq=535 Ack=16711 Win=65535 Len=0
     52 46.760324   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     53 46.764191   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      1414   [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
     54 46.764223   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [ACK] Seq=535 Ack=19431 Win=65535 Len=0
     55 46.766568   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              HTTP     814    HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/html)
     56 46.766974   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [FIN, ACK] Seq=535 Ack=20191 Win=64775 Len=0
     57 46.779080   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      60     http > asam [ACK] Seq=20191 Ack=536 Win=65534 Len=0
     58 46.783083   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      60     http > asam [FIN, ACK] Seq=20191 Ack=536 Win=65534 Len=0
     59 46.783105   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     asam > http [ACK] Seq=536 Ack=20192 Win=64775 Len=0
     60 57.804996   dis.4chan.org         10.0.0.3              TCP      60     http > asam [FIN, ACK] Seq=20191 Ack=536 Win=17680 Len=0
     61 57.805016   10.0.0.3              dis.4chan.org         TCP      54     [TCP ZeroWindow] asam > http [ACK] Seq=536 Ack=20192 Win=0 Len=0

Whats 168.204.152.204.in-addr.arpa:

    168.204.0.0 - 168.204.255.255
MS FN18
Rosemount Aerospace Inc.
14300 Judicial Road
Burnsville, MN
US

    No, Contact Known
nobody@example.com
+1-800-555-1234

Key developments for Rosemount Aerospace, Inc.
Rosemount Aerospace, Inc. Wins $1.12 Million Federal Contract
05/7/2011

Rosemount Aerospace Inc., Burnsville, Minn., won a $1,124,273 federal contract from the Defense Logistics Agency's Defense Supply Center, Richmond, Va., for thermal resistors.
Rosemount Aerospace, Inc. Wins $1.49 Million Federal Contract for Pitot Tubes
10/11/2010

Rosemount Aerospace, Inc. won a $1,489,296 federal contract from the Defense Logistics Agency's Defense Supply Center, Richmond, Va., for pitot tubes.
Rosemount Aerospace, Inc. Wins $1.96 Million Federal Contract
04/5/2010

Rosemount Aerospace, Inc. won a $1,957,500 federal contract from the Defense Logistics Agency Detachment's Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., for aircraft alarm and signal systems.

>>14
Its just the IP of 4chan reversed nothing to be paranoid about.

>>16
in-addr.arpa is confusing with its IP reversal.

>>12
>Trolled into uninstalling NoScript

>>1
I just use Opera.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2716/nntp.png

>>20
Nice.

>>20

Are you Stallman?

Blah, whatever.

Blah, whatever.

Blah, whatever.

BLAHBLAH

>>20
Elaborate, please.

>>20
Is that some kind of script that ties 4chan posts to your email client?

>>28
It's the one you wrote. If you can't you don't belong here. Back to /g/ with you.

>>28
Probably a RSS-to-Usenet converter. It scrapes /prog/RSS and sends Usenet messages to local server.

>>27-30
It's just an NNTP frontend to a progscrape database.

In writing it I learned that NNTP is a shit protocol and a shit representation of a medium where all messages are 2-3 words long.

>>32
so what would be a better protocol for a /prog/ style medium?

>>28
You don't recognise newsgroup posts? `NNTP' didn't give it away?

...why are you on the programming board again?

>>32
Why are you asking yourself?
It implies you already know the answer, in which case the question is pointless.
Or, you dont know the answer, in that your question is absolutely pointless.

use abp+noscript and block half those shitty requests

>>1
Firefox? Too bloated and slow. Currently I'm using Curl.

GET REQUEST POLICY AND THAT OTHER THING ..Ghostery at least... for blocking tracking requests.

>>35
I use a simpler whitelist system:
Every site is Blocked in NoScript/Adblock/RequestPolicy. Each file is inspected and allowed to run only after i see it as integral to site functionality. There just 3k exceptions in the whitelist now. If i used a blacklist system, there would be much more:i tend to block 99% of content.

>>37
Request Policy is enough, it blocks the request. Ghostery is just spyware bullshit.

>>32
I don't really know, but the best I've used for browsing /prog/ was a 4chan extension or Greasemonkey script that fetched subject.txt and displayed thread links sorted by last reply, and it tracked unread threads.

Hm, I found the code again, and now I remember that it's pretty slow ...

>>40
Because its not cached,subject.txt is large and volatile(changed every post)
Consider what if you had to load 2mb file for every HTTP request? it doesn't matter if JavaScript was slow, it wouldn't load the huge file instantly, it has to download and process it.

>>41
It is cached.  The parsing and such isn't too bad either.  It's the operation to mark every thread as read that's super slow.

>>42
Can you post link to code or pastebin it?

>>43
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/81403

The slowness is because of the storage method used.  The database is synced to disk for every thread.

I wonder if I used some other method when converting the application to an extension?

>>44
I can understand why its slow(horrible nests of functions calls and eval!), i would rather rewrite it completely, though i don't need such scripts(i don't want to download a huge database to know "updated threads" and i don't need to subscribe to RSS, i either read /prog/ or not).

>>44
I would suggest switching to hiding threads by number,
map a hotkey or command from greasemonkey- a function to save current page thread number number into a database/GM_SetValue or localstorage, so you would never see it again. It would be very fast and does not require downloading huge files.

I browse the web by having a daemon I wrote fetch the webpages for me and then email me them. After this, I print them out and then insert them deeply into my rectum.

>>8
this

A few days later I noticed first bug reports — apparently, Adblock Plus “glitches”were observed with this NoScript version, especially around NoScript’s domains (but not only those). When I investigated this issue I couldn’t believe my eyes. NoScript was extended by a piece of obfuscated (!) code to specifically target Adblock Plus and disable parts of its functionality


http://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users

Now with more tracking cookies (4chan is using Cloudflare now).

>>8,48
PROTIP:Noscript is free software. You are free study it and improve to fit your needs.

>>51
PROTIP: It's written by a creepy exploitive cunt. Don't use it.

>>52
It's written by a creepy exploitive cunt
Why does this matter when the source is available to study?

>>53
NoScript was extended by a piece of obfuscated (!) code to specifically target Adblock Plus and disable parts of its functionality

obfuscated (!) code

>>54
Publishing obfuscated code with an evil intent is simply evil. However, the fact that it is free software implies the community can always improve bad software releases, no matter what the intent of the original author. Obfuscated code that doesn't have a preferred form for editing isn't considered free software.

I use Lynx.