Hello John,

Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 12:09:13 PM, John wrote:

JL> On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:56, Christopher Taylor 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).
>>
>> How do I tell firefox to use it? It was available via urpmi.
>>

JL> Or you could download the Firefox AdBlock Extension and block
JL> doubleclick that way.

Privoxy will do much more for you. It's worth the almost-trivial
install.

JL> You can also configure things so Firefox asks you if your are
JL> willing to accept cookies, you can turn them down and they can't
JL> track you that way either.

Given the large number of cookies you will encounter, I'd bet this
will get obnoxious rather quickly. :-))

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