On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 23:05, Ben Beeson wrote: > > I checked and I had some other cookies from Yahoo and others in my > cookie > file so I know cookies work. Just for grins, I disabled my Internet > Junkbuster and everything worked just fine with the login to Yahoo. However, > what a pain that was -- I was immediately flooded with a bazillion pop ups > etc.... Anyway, it struck me as odd that only that particular cookie > transaction would fail and all other cookies seem to work just fine. >
I had experimented with junk buster proxies in the past, but lately I have only used Mozilla's pop-up protection feature with fairly good results. I personally think that any proxy that modifies page content, especially by modifying javascript, is bound to cause problems in some circumstances. I think you may have better results with a proxy that only replaces ad banners with blank images of the same size, combined with Mozilla pop-up protection. Mozilla > Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Scripts & Plugins contains the features that generally protects you from annoying javascript. The "Open unrequested windows" option does a good job of doing just that, preventing unrequested pop-ups from popping up (or under). It does so by preventing certain onload() operations from occurring. Earlier versions would break certain web pages like UH PAE http://www.pae.hawaii.edu that uses onload() in order to load the contents of the other frames, but 1.0.0 and later seem to work properly. This pop-up protection also doesn't prevent REQUESTED pop-ups like when you click on something within a page. Several of the other options in that dialog are useful in protecting yourself from hostile or misleading pages too.
