On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:42, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> chronos wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen
> > we see anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ?
> > Like for instance get the ip address and apply an ipchain rule to block
> > that specific ip address ? Would that work or is this just pissing into
> > the wind ? Thank you, Chronos.
>
> You can setup a proxy with the likes of adzapper and such; but after a
> while, the maintainance of the filters wears you down. If it was up to me,
> I'd call that sh*t SPAM/UCE... after all I'm paying to see their ads. On
> the filp side, they're not charging for access to the info on their site...
> :^/
>
> Pierre
adzap http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/adzap/index.html also works with squid
and comes with an 'update-zapper' script that can be run via cron however
often you like, ergo once it's set-up (very quick and easy) maintaince no
longer is an issue.
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CYA,
Muzza.
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