[PLUG] Blocking Banner Ads Cheaply

Bill bill at coho.net
Sat Dec 6 01:57:02 UTC 2003


Um, have you considered the good ol'internet junkbuster?  
www.junkbusters.com or some such.  Easy to set up, plays well with squid 
(which you really ought to run if yer on a dialup and want better 
performance).

Bill

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:18:18PM -0700, 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.
> 
> If you're on dailup, especially if you have a home network, you want
> adzapper and squid.  Squid isn't that hard to set up (and has sane
> defaults in Debian), and tying in adzapper from there is a snap.  The
> documentation on both is approachable and understandable.
> 
> - -- 
>  .''`.     Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca>
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