[PLUG] Blocking Banner Ads Cheaply

[J Black]

I googled for "list of ad servers" and got a bunch of useful-looking
matches.  The first one, http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/, looks quite
informative, tho written for Windows users.  In Linux, the hosts file is
/etc/hosts.

- Jesse
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On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:22, Chuck Mize wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:08, Jason Van Cleve wrote:
> > Quoth Chuck Mize, on Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:32:05 -0800:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Hmm, does it save blocked sites in a usable format?  I should like a
> > more or less permanent solution, one I use on different hosts and maybe
> > different browsers.  So at least, I'd want to access Moz's list, in case
> > I want to implement the bind idea later.
> > 
> > --Jason
> 
> The list is saved in the cookperm.txt file in your mozilla profile
> directory. On my system it's at
> /home/cmize/.mozilla/default/dy3zzgic.slt/cookperm.txt
> 
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