> 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.
