-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 03 February 2002 11:24 pm, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > I'm trying to come up with solutions with which I can block ads > from websites, and also prevent loading ads from sites like > doubleclick.com (those generally get embedded in someone else's > website). > > A while ago I came across some post, or website where the author > did something on his masq server which made all of those Ad sites > resolve to localhost (127.0.0.1), which effectively prevented any of > the masqed machines from loading any of those stupid ads. There was > some huge list of sites that he had collected and stuck in a file. [sinp]
One way is as you mentioned above, with a huge list of sites in /etc/hosts all pointing to localhost. Details, and a few more links here: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.shtml More links on the topic here: http://www.flourish.org/adremove/ You could also do it by running a junkbuster proxy. http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/ijb.html Hope that helps, - -D - -- pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/pgpkey.txt - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8XhmweMAUbzJhSVcRAhdGAKCH5aIzFDKxpgz41UqRsPbteFqePwCgsQUp 3iaSsviSbk3jrhtpGJaidEc= =f84R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
