Hello Christopher,

Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 11:56:53 AM, Christopher wrote:

>>
>> > Install privoxy, and set your browsers to use it. As installed, it
>> > will take care of doubleclick, and some of the more common ones. You
>> > can add as many more of these slimeballs as you wish. Search for
>> > 'hosts file' and get one of the more complete and up to date ones to
>> > see how many there are (usually many hundreds).
>> >
>>
CT> How do I tell firefox to use it? It was available via urpmi.

Go to Preferences/General/Connection, set 'manual proxy..', enter
127.0.0.1 in HTTP Proxy and 8118 in the corresponding Port. This is
the default port for privoxy, and will work if you have not changed
it. FF will then go through privoxy for web surfing.

As a test, go to ebay, and you should see some doubleclick ads blocked
[there will be a note on the screen for each one.]

Only the most obnoxious sites will set cookies in secure mode, but it
may still be an issue, and will require using a proxy for other than
HTTP. Depends on where you go and how paranoid you are. :-)

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