Privoxy is the Dogs Bo****ks for blocking ads (Sorry, but you have to be British to understand that expresssion, it means 'It is good')
http://www.privoxy.org/ derek On Saturday 10 Aug 2002 11:19 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > At work I have been using a hosts file on a Win98 machine to effectively > block ads. I tried this on MD8.2 using 127.0.0.3 (as recommended by a site > that provided the hosts file) as the IP. The rationale was that since I'm > running Apache, I needed to use an address other than 127.0.0.1. > > Well, anytime I view a site that has something blocked by the hosts file, > I get a 404 error displayed there the page/media should be. Also, if I > visit the root of a blocked site like www.msn.com, my web root gets > displayed. I tried changing 127.0.0.3 to 0.0.0.0, but got the same result. > > So, I briefly tried squid and squidguard. I couldn't get squidguard set up > and before I invest my time, I was wondering if anybody has used it to > block Internet ads and how it works. Or, is there another tool I should be > using? > > TIA, > Todd
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