Bruce, Oh you gotta give us more details on that! Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11-06-27 1:09 PM, Tim Bray wrote: >> >> I just clicked on a PESO hosted on photo.net. It popped up an >> interstitial ad that I had to view or dismiss before I could see the >> picture. [...] > > I'm no fan of photo.net, but I've never seen these popups and I see very few > of the banner ads, so I've been a bit puzzled about all the fuss. > > So while looking at Dave Brooks' latest shots I investigated to see what was > happening -- of course! Years ago I configured my DSL router (pfSense) to > return "host not found" replies to all domain-name lookups for > doubleclick.net, which happens to cover the majority of ads at photo.net. > So no popups, and empty whitespace where the banner ads usually go for all > the computers in the house. DNS proxies are a wonderful thing. ;-) > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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