[PLUG] Blocking Banner Ads Cheaply

Chuck Mize cmize at goiter.com
Fri Dec 5 13:33:01 UTC 2003


What browser are you using? I've found that using Mozilla's picture
blocking feature (right click on the banners and select 'Block Images
>From This Server') on the sites that I visit most often kills just about
all the banners and it doesn't leave a broken image icon.

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 13:18, Jason Van Cleve wrote:
> So I'm on dial-up and want to block banner ads, but I don't want to do
> anything too fancy, like using squid.  I know there is a solution using
> bind, which I have on my system but am not actually running.  But it
> appears I can also do it just by adding entries in /etc/hosts.
> 
> Which is preferable?  It would be nice to redirect ad' domains to my
> local httpd and serve myself a gif image instead of the broken image
> icon.
> 
> And by the way, can anyone post a list of undesirable domains, as a
> starting point?
> 
> Muchas thanks,
> 
> --Jason Van Cleve
> 
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