From: Bran Everseeking
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:40:28 +1100
Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Firefox and adblocker plus can be your friends in this situation.
>
> I didn't realise that the Gmail page contained a column of ads until I
> opened it in IE ;-)
I am often surprised to see ads on other peoples' computers.
flashblock is another good toy. gives you the choice of looking at
flash instead of having a page that consists of 20 flash ads and a
flash player bogging things down.
My fundamental tool for ad blocking is the hosts file. Redirects
unwanted domains to local host 127.0.0.1
Blocked ads leave a frame with a box that says "Unable to connect.
Firefox can't establish a connection with whatever domain", so you know
what ad site has been blocked.
You can edit the hosts file to unblock that site if you want to.
The only time it has ever given me any trouble was some BBC videos that
started out by redirecting to a commercial hosted on doubleclick. They'd
give that endless arrow chasing around in a circle with a message
"waiting for so and so" down in the lower left corner of the browser.
I ended up giving those videos a pass.
There are some sites essentially unreachable because they redirect to a
pass through ad that's on one of the blocked hosts. But if the site is
going to resort to that kind of deceptive action, I don't want to go
there anyway.
It won't block ads that are actually hosted on the site if the site
itself is not on the list - like NYTimes has most of their web
advertising actually on the NYTimes server.
It's easy to update and add in new SPAM sites.
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