hmm that doesnt seem to be for windows.
it didnt seem to state what operating system its for though i gues its unix.
although it looks like the sort of thing im looking for.

the best one ive used so far was naviscope,
however its not been updated for so many years it doesnt cope with new
things,
it does however set up IE to use it as a proxy,
is very fast, no noticable lag, blocks adverts by expresion matching etc,
also it allows you to see the advert by hovering the mouse over the advert
wich it then displays. it also lets you see what references each page has
made.
although this does take quite a lot of clicking

shame the source code isnt available it does just about what I want, with no
fancy extras I dont need wich just get in the way.

I also tried webcleaner, its open source for python, however it seems very
slow, and it stops some of the sites from working, seems to have so many
avenues of options to explore will probably take me ages to find out how to
tailor it so individual sites stil work.

Ive found the hosts list from mvps to be quite good, but again some pages
dont work, unless I take out a lot of them, but then that leaves other pages
open to them.

allowing sites to bypass the proxy is too much of an all or nothing option.

I want to make it so you can tailor it to any site and or page as necessary,
from as close to the page as possible, ie blocking images just by pointing
to them, vet scripts with enough details to identify what theyr doing, and
remember for next time, and al the other annoying things.

As it is with IE I have scripts on ask except for trusted zone, but I get so
iritated with this. it doesnt tell you anything about whats going on,
if a site is in the trusted zone I stil get bombarded with prompts for
things wich it refers to on other sites and no way of knowing which site so
it can be added to the trusted zone.

ive seen one or more to try, takes quite a while to go through each one
though.
is it that difficult to write one from scratch or is there some basic
framework examples ?

Colin =^.^=