A few other ideas: 1) You can create a CSS sheet and apply it to every page. This is done via an IE setting. It does not effect CSS templates on the web sites you visit. What does this CSS sheet do? It looks for images in 'normal' ad sizes and simply turns them off. You still end up downloading ads, but you (almost) never see them. If anyone wants this CSS sheet, email me offlist. (It was created by a buddy of mine.)
2) Edit your hosts file and simply redirect common ad companies: 127.0.0.1 x10.com 127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com 127.0.0.1 www.x10.com 127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net In this case, the ads come up as broken images, but even that is better than an ad. -RC > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Rid yourself of X10 ads > > > I'd seen this before and have started using Mozilla to start > surfing popup > sites, but since this uses cookies, with an expiration date, > I thought I > should be able to permantently kill the damn ads by either editing the > cookie, or setting the expiration date manually. > > After about five seconds of looking at the url below, I > realized X10 made it > super easy for us to kill X10 ads forever :) Check the link > that says Click > Here...it looks like this. > http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=30&PAGE=http://www.x10. > com/x10ads1.ht > m > > Well I stuck this url in httpanalyzer, and the cookie got set > to expire Jan > 16, then I changed the url to > http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=60&PAGE=http://www.x10. com/x10ads1.ht m .and guess what? The cookie got set to expire Feb 15! :) I also tested with 365 days, and it works... As far as I know this is an original discovery by me...so don't go spreading it all around town or X10 will fix it. :) jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip Broussard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:06 PM Subject: Rid yourself of X10 ads > I got real tired of the x10 pop under ads and sent them a nasty gram > email. They gave me this info to get rid of them for 30 days. > > <<You can remove yourself from our pop-under advertising by > <<following the instructions at the bottom of this page: > << > <<http://www.x10.com/x10ads.htm > > <<If you follow these instructions, a cookie will be placed > <<on your PC that tells us not to display the ads to you. > > > Phillip Broussard > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
