On Saturday 29 June 2002 05:03 pm, you wrote: > SNIP > > > I installed and used privoxy for a day or two last week. It > > worked...sort of. Didn't lose my net connection but it is very fussy as > > to what sites it will connect to and load. I had to "try again" for six > > out of every ten sites I went to. Too annoying to be really useful so I > > wiped it off. > > > > I think it will be really useful when it is developed further, but right > > now I'll pass on it. > > > > Michael Biddulph > > Brisbane Australia > > That message you get is often because the web site you were at redirects > you to another site in a different domain. Since that sort of behaviour is > indicative of 'advertising', privoxy's default behaviour is to block the > page but offer to take you there if you really want to go. You can change > the default behaviour either globally or on a site by site basis quite > easily. Unfortunately it is very difficult for any proxy to 'know' if a > page is advertising and to be blocked, or is a legitimate page. It can only > follow general rules. The nice thing about privoxy is that it puts *you* in > control of what those rules are. > Personally I welcome the fact that I have not seen a pop up for "On Line > Casino Gambling", " XXXX rated sites" or "Tiny video cameras" for many > months > > :-) > > derek Ok, I am going to give it a trial run. Someone else also asked if it was running so I did "services privoxy start" from command line and now it seems that it is working in Netscape. I will set it for Konqueror also since that is my prefered browser. Thanks for all the help folks. I already see a lack of popups, so let's see what else doesn't show up. Thanks again, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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