Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-30 Thread Dan
At 4:56 PM -0500 11/29/2009, Al boone wrote:
I really can't figure out if this is a serious conversation or not. 
Is it possible to end it because it doesn't seem to be going 
anywhere? just my 2 cents.

Works for me.   John and I will never agree anyway. :)

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-29 Thread Paul
 Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and
 computing power, even today, is very expensive--if you can't
 financially support the websites you use then you shouldn't be
 expecting the service they provide you in exchange. I hate people who
 steal financially from those who rely on ad revenue to stay afloat
 with ad blockers. How selfish, what--do you all think these people
 grow money on trees?



Oh, so technology should only be used to make us spend more money, and
we shouldn't make use of technology that lets us save money and do
what we'd like?

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-29 Thread Dan
At 9:05 AM -0800 11/29/2009, Paul wrote:
   Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and
  computing power, even today, is very expensive--if you can't
  financially support the websites you use then you shouldn't be
  expecting the service they provide you in exchange. I hate people who
  steal financially from those who rely on ad revenue to stay afloat
  with ad blockers. How selfish, what--do you all think these people
   grow money on trees?

Oh, so technology should only be used to make us spend more money, and
we shouldn't make use of technology that lets us save money and do
what we'd like?

Correct.  You have been assimilated.  Resistance is futile.

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-29 Thread Bruce Johnson

On Nov 29, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Paul wrote:



 Oh, so technology should only be used to make us spend more money, and
 we shouldn't make use of technology that lets us save money and do
 what we'd like?

No, simply do not whinge about what gift horses' mouths contain.

You want internet  content sans ads? Pay for it.

You want free internet content? Something's got to pay the bills...

TANSTAAFL.

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Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-29 Thread Dan
At 2:36 PM -0500 11/29/2009, John Musbach wrote:
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote:
  Oh, so technology should only be used to make us spend more money, and
  we shouldn't make use of technology that lets us save money and do
  what we'd like?

Oh you can, just don't expect services you don't financially support
to be around very long.

So you believe that sites MUST have in-your-face obnoxious offensive 
cpu-chewing advertising, or they'll fail?  How does that work, 
against successful models such as google's simple line-item ads?  Or 
the myriad of ad companies that offer only simple static banners?

Remember all those free dial up and broadband ISP's and free 
unlimited hosts like Xoom? Yeah, they're gone. ;-)

They were badly done with bad business models.  They needed to go away.

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-29 Thread John Musbach
On 11/29/09, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
 So you believe that sites MUST have in-your-face obnoxious offensive
 cpu-chewing advertising, or they'll fail?  How does that work,
 against successful models such as google's simple line-item ads?  Or
 the myriad of ad companies that offer only simple static banners?

Unfortunately yes. As nice as unobtrusive text ads and static graphic
banners are they do not bring in nearly as much money as the obtrusive
ads you're referring to. The unobtrusive ad formats can be used in
conjunction with the obtrusive but unobtrusive ads can no longer make
a website profitable on it's own, the end of free ISPs and unlimited
hosts like xoom marked rye end of that period.

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-29 Thread Al boone
I really can't figure out if this is a serious conversation or not. Is it
possible to end it because it doesn't seem to be going anywhere? just my 2
cents.

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.comwrote:

 On 11/29/09, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
  So you believe that sites MUST have in-your-face obnoxious offensive
  cpu-chewing advertising, or they'll fail?  How does that work,
  against successful models such as google's simple line-item ads?  Or
  the myriad of ad companies that offer only simple static banners?

 Unfortunately yes. As nice as unobtrusive text ads and static graphic
 banners are they do not bring in nearly as much money as the obtrusive
 ads you're referring to. The unobtrusive ad formats can be used in
 conjunction with the obtrusive but unobtrusive ads can no longer make
 a website profitable on it's own, the end of free ISPs and unlimited
 hosts like xoom marked rye end of that period.

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-27 Thread tina
in my router, there's an option called dns forwarder

when ads bother me too much, I go in there and forward their domain to IP
127.0.0.1

I guess this can also be done in your local hosts file somewhere in macos

/tina

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-27 Thread Nestamicky
On 11/27/09 3:57 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
 in my router, there's an option called dns forwarder

 when ads bother me too much, I go in there and forward their domain to IP
 127.0.0.1

 I guess this can also be done in your local hosts file somewhere in macos
What a brilliant idea, though I suspect time consuming in finding their IPs.

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-27 Thread Dan
At 10:09 PM -0600 11/26/2009, Caleb S. Cupples wrote:
On Thursday 26 November 2009 17:48:57 Paul Stamsen wrote:
  I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences
   (Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet
TechTracker.

I did some research, and the Trolltech plist is 
put there by apps that are written using the Qt 
toolkit, and IIRC, there are several 
cross-platform Mac apps that use it, including 
some of Google's programs. Anyway, from what 
I've read, it seems like it's merely a 
coincidence that it had the effects that were 
documented, and I know it's relied on for the 
KDE apps I have running under OS X.

The Qt stuff can be useful.

If you open that plist in the Property List 
Editor, and widen the properly list field a 
*lot*, then you can see from which apps it was 
used.  The key names include the app names.

eg:

Qt Factory Cache 
4·5.com·trolltech·Qt·QImageIOHandlerFactoryInterface:.Users.dan.Desktop.Minitube·app.Contents.PlugIns.imageformats.libqgif·dylib

Minitube is an app I fooled around with recently.

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-27 Thread tina
 On 11/27/09 3:57 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
 in my router, there's an option called dns forwarder

 when ads bother me too much, I go in there and forward their domain to
 IP
 127.0.0.1

 I guess this can also be done in your local hosts file somewhere in
 macos

 What a brilliant idea, though I suspect time consuming in finding their
 IPs.

you don't need their ip, just the domain name - ie: ad.doubleclick.net,
googleads.g.doubleclick.net, adfarm.mediaplex.com

just to name a few

stumbled upon that concept somewhere, while looking for something else,
but couldn't get it to work with the hostsfile in mac os 9 (probably did
something wrong or couldn't find it or something) and complained to that
cute little code nerd I know and who set up the router for me - he told me
I could do it in the router

I don't know about other routers, this one's kinda nerdy thing, a soekris
box, running m0n0wall

I like it ;-)

/tina

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-27 Thread Dan
At 3:24 AM +0100 11/28/2009, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
oh, and the nice thing about doing it in the router of course is that all
the puters on the network benefits from it

Doable IFF you have admin type access to said routers.

And if you swap out the router, all those filters vanish.

And if you screw up an entry, you can interrupt service for all those 'puters.

And if you move the computer to a different location, it is no longer 
protected by such filters.

How do you handle filtering on a domain to which access might be 
needed by someone else on your network?

Ditto for issues of editing the hosts file.  Requires admin access, 
no syntax errors, 100% cooperative users, etc.

Sorry, I'm not a fan of this type of filtering.  Domain blocking 
should be done in the browser, where it can easily be undone / 
corrected by normal users, not at a higher level where it becomes an 
admin hassle.

Now, if you're running a large business and your job is to filter 
your users up the wazoo... then you deserve to have the hassle.

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Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Stamsen
Previously, referring to Twitter, the new cpu pig,at 3:19  pm -0500 11/26/09, 
Dan wrote:
After beating Flash into submission with ClickToFlash, and blocking
various animated ads with SafariBlock, my browsing speed was pretty
durn quick!

But now sites have begun including globs of Twitter***t, which makes
Safari drink most of my CPU and eat more memory, especially if I've
opened two or more tabs of these pages!

Any ideas on how to block those, or at least stone (freeze) them?

...I'm just starting to look at their code, to see if something like
SafariBlock can do it.


 And I'm getting a **ed pop-ups from NetFlicks  or  a pop-in from CNet 
TechTracker.

 What would you folks suggest to combat them?
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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread John Musbach
On 11/26/09, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote:
  And I'm getting a **ed pop-ups from NetFlicks  or  a pop-in from CNet
 TechTracker.

  What would you folks suggest to combat them?

Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and
computing power, even today, is very expensive--if you can't
financially support the websites you use then you shouldn't be
expecting the service they provide you in exchange. I hate people who
steal financially from those who rely on ad revenue to stay afloat
with ad blockers. How selfish, what--do you all think these people
grow money on trees?


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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Dan
At 3:53 PM -0500 11/26/2009, John Musbach wrote:
On 11/26/09, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote:
And I'm getting a **ed pop-ups from NetFlicks  or  a pop-in 
from CNet TechTracker. What would you folks suggest to combat them?

Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and
computing power, even today, is very expensive--if you can't
financially support the websites you use then you shouldn't be
expecting the service they provide you in exchange. I hate people who
steal financially from those who rely on ad revenue to stay afloat
with ad blockers. How selfish, what--do you all think these people
grow money on trees?

There are many ways for sites to make money with advertising.  There 
is simply NO NEED for a site to hammer us with ads that are resource 
hogging, intrusive, offensive, animated, etc etc etc.

With a hardcopy magazine, you can quickly flip past any offensive ad 
- and still enjoy the magazine.  Flash and ad blockers let us do the 
same thing with web sites.  That's all.

As for denying them income?  Oh please.  Ad rates are crashing 
because people don't click on these offensive presentations.  If you 
like the site and want them to make money then CLICK on the ads. 
Vote with your mouse tho - be selective - click on the inoffensive 
static ones.  Don't reward the advertiser's bad behavior.

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Dan
At 1:46 PM -0700 11/26/2009, Paul Stamsen wrote:

And I'm getting a **ed pop-ups from NetFlicks  or  a pop-in 
from CNet TechTracker.

What would you folks suggest to combat them?

Specific URLs, so we can look at 'em?

What ad blocker are you using?

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Stamsen
Previously, at 3:53  pm -0500 11/26/09, John Musbach wrote:

Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and
computing power, even today, is very expensive--if you can't
financially support the websites you use then you shouldn't be
expecting the service they provide you in exchange. I hate people who
steal financially from those who rely on ad revenue to stay afloat
with ad blockers. How selfish, what--do you all think these people
grow money on trees?


 I simply don't understand. I'm not allowed to look?


and then choose no thanks?
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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Stamsen
Previously, at 4:15  pm -0500 11/26/09, Dan wrote:
Specific URLs, so we can look at 'em?


You know, I have no idea. Maybe CNET.com, but I have no idea where the NetFlix 
came from.

What ad blocker are you using?

Same as you ClickToFlash, and blocking
various animated ads with SafariBlock.

 Thanks for the reasonable assistance and Happy Thanksgiving.

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Michael G.M.
I use SeaMonkey 2.0 with Adblock plus and NoScript. Both Add-ons do
really, really well.
NoScript has been doing most of the blocking and so on for me.

On a side note, Lowend Mac seems to be the site I have the most
problems with lately. ie. getting it to display properly. This is an
issue with all my browsers and LEM. It's either everything is
scrunched together or the Adds take up half the freakin' page. When I
block the Add the whole half of the page it was covering is gone
too. :P
Talk about overkill!!! And when I use none in the style it finally
displays OK but everything is all over the place.
I know that's the way Dan does it, but I wish I could get it to load
well or he'd just use something more compatible nearly all Mac web
browsers could load properly at least.

-Mike

On Nov 26, 5:14 pm, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote:
 Previously, at 4:15  pm -0500 11/26/09, Dan wrote:

 Specific URLs, so we can look at 'em?

 You know, I have no idea. Maybe CNET.com, but I have no idea where the 
 NetFlix came from.

 What ad blocker are you using?

 Same as you ClickToFlash, and blocking
 various animated ads with SafariBlock.

  Thanks for the reasonable assistance and Happy Thanksgiving.

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Stamsen
I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences 
(Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet TechTracker.

 Interesting name, huh?

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Michael G.M.


On Nov 26, 6:48 pm, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote:
 I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences 
 (Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet TechTracker.

  Interesting name, huh?
Yes, very interesting and appropriately named I must say. Sounds like
a no-brainer of what to do with that .plist file. I'm sure someone or
maybe even I could figure out an automator or Script of what to do to
block that file entirely!
Thank you very much for posting about this. I'm sure many will find it
a file to put on their blacklist!

On another side note to my previous post, never mind about my previous
post about the LEM site, it seems to have gotten better or maybe I
blocked it temporarily or whatever. Anyway it displays fine now.
Sorry.
-Mike

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Michael G.M.


On Nov 26, 10:42 pm, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote:
 Previously, at 7:31  pm -0800 11/26/09, Michael G.M. wrote:

 Yes, very interesting and appropriately named I must say. Sounds like
 a no-brainer of what to do with that .plist file. I'm sure someone or
 maybe even I could figure out an automator or Script of what to do to
 block that file entirely!
 Thank you very much for posting about this. I'm sure many will find it
 a file to put on their blacklist!

 Well I must be a no-brainer, 'cause I have no idea how to do what you 
 suggest! :-[
Automator - You've surely heard of it. (?)
Well, it's basically where there's a will, there's a script ready to
be made.
There's one Automator action to select that's called Watch what I
do.
The next time I get the Trolltech.plist file I'll launch Automator and
select the watch what I do to create a workflow
that automatically does this. There may be another way with Automator
to do this, I dunno yet. I'll keep a watchful eye out for this file
and study up on Automator to see what options there are for this.
Do you use Tiger or Leopard?
I'm just starting to look into Automator. I think I can find some uses
for it, like this one.
Cheers!
-Mike
P.S. And no, you're not a 'no-brainer'! Curiosity made the Mac, didn't
it?
 -- John J. Plomp

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Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Caleb S. Cupples
On Thursday 26 November 2009 17:48:57 Paul Stamsen wrote:
 I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences
  (Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet
  TechTracker.
 
  Interesting name, huh?
 
 p.
 
I did some research, and the Trolltech plist is put there by apps that are 
written using the Qt toolkit, and IIRC, there are several cross-platform Mac 
apps that use it, including some of Google's programs. Anyway, from what I've 
read, it seems like it's merely a coincidence that it had the effects that were 
documented, and I know it's relied on for the KDE apps I have running under OS 
X.

Anyway, that's just my $0.02.

Caleb
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