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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A question to all of you that learned about 'privoxy' after Rikona's e-mail:
1. How are you guys doing?
2. Any inconveniences in your surfing?
3. What about web browsing delays?
4. What about web site availability?
The reason I'm asking (and Rikona don't take me wrong, thanks for the advice) is that personally Im experiencing the following issues and would like to know if it just me or does someone else feel the same?:
- First time you get to a site, if you get to the site, it is extremely slow. Once you have been there before it loads quickly.
- I said 'if you get to the site' because very frecuently after using privoxy I'm not able to get to common websites as: Yahoo (I get there the first time but when comming back without login out on previous session just get the msg: '
No such domain
Your request for http://us.f359.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowFolder?rb=Inbox&reset=1&YY=17412&inc=200&order=down ')and few others very common websites
- Some times clicking the refresh button helps but most times it doesn't
- So many sites are not accessible unless I tried several times (which are up and running if I check without using privoxy)
- A lot of sites which I use to enter without www requires me now to use the complete www.format which I'm not use to.
Overall how's been everyone else experience.
BTW, I'm running Mozilla FireFox Ver 1.0.6
Rikona: what's your web browser?
