IEEE Computing Covers Freenet

Rayban writes: "From the Freenet Project homepage: IEEE Internet Computing has an article (pdf) entitled 'Protecting Free Expression Online with Freenet.' It provides an excellent technical introduction to the core ideas behind Freenet."

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The Cheap Alternative to Subscribing

[Starship Trooper]

If you're like me, you're probably wondering just why the hell anyone would pay for Slashdot, let alone want to support it. As it turns out, Slashdot already has all the features you need to completely disable all advertisements without paying those greedy slobs at VA Software a cent. All you need is a DOM-compliant browser, such as Mozilla or Konqueror, and the User Slashbox. With disgustingly-placed new full-page ads now arriving, the time has come to show that we users will not let ourselves be advertised into submission.

Follow these five easy steps and never see another Slashdot ad again:

1. Go into your Homepage Preferences.
2. Scroll down to the "User Space" textarea, and paste the following four lines of HTML in there:

   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pknet.com/~joe/adkiller.js"></sc ript>
   <script type="text/javascript"><!--
   delAds();
   --></script>
   

   (click here to download the adkiller javascript code and put it on your own webspace, in case you don't trust me :-)
3. Scroll down the list of slashboxes, and make sure the "User Space" checkbox (inexplicably located between "MP3.com" and "Myther.com") is checked.
4. Return to the front page, and your Slashbox should be there, quietly zapping all iframes and banner-shaped images on the page.
5. There is no step 5!! It's that easy.

There are a few problems, however:

• Opera doesn't seem to work with this at all.
• Internet Explorer won't automatically remove the ads, but by appending the following to the above code:

  <a href="javascript:delAds()">Click to delete ads</a>

  and clicking the new link in your Slashbox, the ads will go away.
• The User Slashbox only shows up on index.pl and articles.pl pages, so comment and user pages will still have ads. Luckily, the article pages seem to be the only ones running the obnoxious new full-page ads, so this shouldn't be too annoying.

If you are a Javascript wizard and know how to make this script work on Opera or IE, please tell me. Ad-free Slashdot should be available to everyone!