![]() It has a simple and convenient slider interface.If you think it’s being too aggressive, you can tell it to back off a little and let more suspected spam through. ![]() If it’s not catching enough, you can turn it up. If you sort your spam box by label color and remember to train SpamSieve, you can eventually stop worrying about picking through most of the spam it identifies because the false positives almost always end up very near the top of the list, with the obvious spam sitting at the bottom. If SpamSieve has one drawback, it’s one common to every client-side filter: The machine you’re running it on has to give up memory and processor time to examine each message. By running SpamAssassin on my server and letting it handle the worst spam, SpamSieve works really well as mop-up for borderline cases. It’s much easier to tune in that role, too. What it does: Pith Helmet is “an extended site preferences and ad blocking plug-in.” It also offers capabilities similar to those provided by the Firefox add-on Greasemonkey. I don’t know what you think of ad blocking. ![]() I don’t think it’s fair to blow off sites dependent on ad revenue with comments like “get a new business model.” But because I’ve been using operating systems besides Windows for years, I’m acutely aware of how hard some sites can be on browsers that aren’t Internet Explorer, and how poorly optimized content plugins like Flash can be. I also draw the line at popups and popunders. So for someone like me, who will generally tolerate ads but sometimes wants to control them, Pith Helmet is perfect. Pith Helmet is a Safari add-on, though it can also work with other browsers that use Safari’s Web-rendering engine. Its basic functions are ad-blocking and cookie control, but it is remarkably fine-grained.įor instance, perhaps you visit a site regularly where the ads are tolerable and you want to support the site by letting it claim your ad impressions, but its Javascript makes Safari crash, or just doesn’t work. ![]() With Pith Helmet, you can create a site-specific rule that turns off ad blocking and also turns off Javascript. Or maybe you visit a site that uses an ad server that’s frequently down and stuffs up page downloads. With Pith Helmet, you can write a rule that targets only ad content from that server. ![]()
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