Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-08 Thread Harald Weis
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 07:40:37PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  
  
   itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should
   use.
  
   firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick.
  
   thanks for some tips,

Have a look at midori.
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Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:16:05AM +0100, Harald Weis wrote:
 On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 07:40:37PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
   
   
  itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should
  use.
   
  firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick.
   
  thanks for some tips,
 
 Have a look at midori.

thanks, iwill.


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Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:40:37 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:

 itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should
   use.
 
   firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick.

I just use a hosts file and it works well (as long as you're not running 
a web server on port 80 of the localhost, of course).

I use the one at http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm, with a nightly 
cron job to fetch, unzip and dos2unix it, then merge it with my (very 
small) 'real' hosts stub.

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Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread herbert langhans
All I use is Adblock Plus. With the automatic updates I havent seen any
ad for month..

herb langhans

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Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Mike Woods

Quoting herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl:


All I use is Adblock Plus. With the automatic updates I havent seen any
ad for month..


I'll second this endorsement, i've been using it for a good few years  
now and I just works :)



Mike Woods
Full of squishy cynicism
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Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 19:40:37 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 
 
   itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should
   use.
 
   firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick.

Simply deactivate Flash. :-)

There are several extensions for Firefox to make the web less
annoying and more usable by removing ads. The most prominent
probably is Adblock Plus; also NoScript is worth having a
look at.

Still simply (temporarily) deactivating Flash gets you rid
of most annoying ads, and you're typically left with grey
boxes which is much more acceptable than blaring autoplay
videos, squeaking buttons and other shit crazy people think
to belong to a modern web experience.

Sadly, some web sites use Flash as a replacement for
content, for HTML. This definitely is a signal that the
page doesn't want visitors. Many use it to deliver video
(streaming), which can already be perfectly done using
HTML 5. Some are using it for interactivity features. All
those uses may be justified, even though Flash is losing
its importance. So if you deactivate it, you're also safe
against those backwards designs, where Flash-based
advertisement is a main part of the delivered content.

Today I don't need to deal with this question anymore. I've
been using a two browsers approach: Firefox with Flash
installed, everything works as intended, and Opera as my
main browser, with Flash deactivated, and quite picky
about what sites are allowed to do. If I urgently need to
access something that doesn't show in Opera, I'll use
Firefox for this one occassion. :-)



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Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread RW
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:32:35 +0100
Polytropon wrote:


 Today I don't need to deal with this question anymore. I've
 been using a two browsers approach: Firefox with Flash
 installed, everything works as intended, and Opera as my
 main browser, with Flash deactivated, and quite picky
 about what sites are allowed to do. If I urgently need to
 access something that doesn't show in Opera, I'll use
 Firefox for this one occassion. :-)

There's also an Opera setting enable plugins only on on demand. With
that setting if you click on a place-holder it becomes activated until
you leave the page.
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Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 04:44:18PM +0200, Aldis Berjoza wrote:
 07.01.2013, 05:43, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org:
  itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should
  use.
 
  firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick.
 
  thanks for some tips,
 
  gary
 
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    Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
 
 
 
 I use dns/pdnsd to block (with dns) many advertisement sites, facebook, 
 twitter etc
 I also use www/privoxy for html content blocking
 Finally if something remains, that I can't filter, then I use ad-block
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to everybody on adblocking:: Thanks!  I was about to go apeshit
with all rthese bloody ads.  I mean, enuf already. --g.



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AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-06 Thread Gary Kline


itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should
use.

firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick.

thanks for some tips,

gary



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Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-06 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:


 itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should
 use.

 firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick.

 thanks for some tips,

 gary

For firefox I use the following:

Adblock Plus
Better Privacy
Ghostery
NoScript
RequestPolicy

I have few problems with ads.

Kurt
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