Rob Hudson wrote:
Could someone remind me how to add the domains to kill banner ads? Is
it in the /etc/hosts file? Does anyone have a nice list of them that
they've been using?
One way to do it is to make the ad host point to localhost. Add a
line like this to /etc/hosts
127.0.0.99 ad.doubleclick.net
You can, I think, use all the addresses 127.0.0.1 through
127.255.255.254. And you can assign an arbitrary number of hostnames
to each address.
But that's not the real answer. A much better solution is to install
the internet junkbuster. IJB doesn't just know some host names, it
filters the whole URL using regexps, so even if the ad comes from the
same host as the page you want, you win. The IJB runs as an http
proxy. It can chain to another proxy, so if you run squid or a
firewall proxy or whatever, you can use both your proxy and IJB.
The original version is at www.internet-junkbusters.com, but the
people who run that site haven't really been maintaining it, and have
never had a good set of filters. That niche was taken up by Stefan
Waldherr. He distributes an improved IJB and a good, frequently
updated set of filters from his site. Get it here.
http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/
That's what I use, and I like it (obviously).
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Kbob
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