RE: Ad Zapper Michael, I owe you an apology!
I installed Ad Zapper Thursday night and tweaked it a bit on Friday. Saturday morning I went back and re-read this entire thread. That was when I realized that I'm guilty of misreading a couple of your posts. When Mr. (or Ms.) Admin asked about using squidGuard to block popups you recommended Ad Zapper. I installed Ad Zapper and turned off my client side popup blocker. I went to several of my favorite sites that I know have popups, and none of the popups were blocked. If fact, over the course of a day and a half I'm not sure that Ad Zapper blocked a single popup. It does do a very good job on ads! I didn't realize my mistake until I reread your posts. You were praising Ad Zapper for its capabilities as a ad blocker, and I agree with you. Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Lightfoot.Michael > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 9:09 PM > To: Squidguard Mailing List > Subject: RE: Getting Rid of Pop-ups > > > > Lightfoot.Michael writes: > > > > > > Look at the Ad Zapper (http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/) > > which has a > > > popup killer option. Of course running 2 redirectors is a bit of a > > > pain and a memory hog. > > > > Ad Zapper and squidGuard are both redirectors, and they both > > see every url that is requested (but not the content of that url). > > > > If Ad Zapper can stop pop-ups, then squidGuard can stop pop-ups. > > > Reading between the lines above I detect a degree of skepticism - from > the first sentence on the above-quoted web page: > > "This is a redirector for squid that intercepts advertising (banners, > popup windows, flash animations, etc), page counters and some web bugs > (as found)." > > Any disbelief should be taken up with the author or by actually > installing the software (as I have here at Comcare and two previous > sites.) :-) > > I am not in any way disparaging squidguard which is the best of the > (free) website filters, but IMAO Ad Zapper is the best of the web > advertising filters (cf Junkbuster and a number of others.) > > > > > Michael Lightfoot > Unix Consultant > ISG Host Systems > Comcare > +61 2 62750680 > Apologies for the rubbish that follows... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > NOTICE: This e-mail message and attachments may contain confidential > information. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use or > disclose any information in the message or attachments. If received in > error, please notify the sender by return email immediately. Comcare > does not waive any confidentiality or privilege. > > >
