On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 6:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 2:49 pm, magnet wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 10:56 am, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> > > On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:28:24 +0000
> > >
> > > magnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > Is there some software filter/proxy similar to WebWasher on windblowz
> > > > that prevents/blocks adverts on web pages using ad server IPs?
> > >
> > > Webwasher is avaliable for Linux too ;-) I personally use privoxy
> > > (http://www.privoxy.org/) which does an outstanding job.
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > > Ralph
> >
> > Doh, and I just entered approx 650 advert/annoying partial URLs and IPs
> > :) Actually all I did was to paste/add the lines to my /etc/hosts file in
> > the format:
> >
> >  127.0.0.0 bogus.advert.url
> >
> > and they no longer get loaded up here. I can't think why I didnt suss
> > this out earlier, although being up half the night prob didn't help ;-)
> >
> > Thanks anyway for the replies peeps :)
>
> This I don't understand.  Could you please explain to me how this works? 
> Just for understanding :)
>
> Anne

Go here Anne for a read: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/hostsforlinux.html

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