Blocking part of a website

Question

I am trying to block Google Reader:

reader.google.com

www.google.com/reader

The hard part is blocking the reader directory

I blocked reader.google.com by changing my /etc/hosts file (this is for a Mac)

Is there any way to block www.google.com/reader without buying software? Note this is for Safari so Greasemonkey won't work, and Leopard's Parental Controls throttle the CPU when they are turned on.

Also I've tried OpenDNS, which is awesome, but doesn't work for this...

Any thoughts?

Update: This is for a laptop that travels a lot. So a router or a home proxy server won't work. Firefox would work, but I don't think I can uninstall Safari from a mac.

Answer 1

What about at the router level? My router as an URL blocker built in.

Answer 2

Maybe you can find some sort of http proxy you could install to filter this content and use that when browsing. On Firefox you could easily define a rule for Adblock Plus.

Answer 3

Set up a proxy server and block it via that.

Answer 4

You could do this with a proxy (for example Proxomitron).

Answer 5

You can use Privoxy to filter about anything.

Answer 6

try this

Place the Mac hosts file in the Preference folder. Name it "Hosts". Restart.

OR

Copy the Mac hosts file to your computer. In the TCP/IP Control Panel, choose 'Select Hosts file' Select this file. Close and restart.

then add this line to it

127.0.0.1 reader.google.com

note: answer from http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.shtml

Answer 7

Another option is to use a free service like www.opendns.com as your dns servers, they allow you to block specific domains or turn on filtering etc.

Answer 8

I did exactly what you're looking for using Safari AdBlock. Just define a few rules in Safari->Preferences->AdBlock and you should be good to go!