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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:06:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Simon Siemonsma <s.siemonsma@hccnet.nl>
Cc:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Block WWW advertizing banners & auto spawn web pages using ipfilt er or ipfw
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10112271506040.15456-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <200112272001.VAA23530@smtp.hccnet.nl>

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Someone should start a popup:ip:advert DNS site like the email blackhole
list! 

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Simon Siemonsma wrote:

> Sounds like a good idea to me, but how does it work?
> 
> Simon Siemonsma
> 
> On Thursday 27 December 2001 07:45, you wrote:
> > How about just setting your DNS or hosts file to point to a bogus location
> > for domains that serve advertisements?  I've done that in the past, thereby
> > replacing advertising banners with plain blank boxes (served by my own
> > machine, to which I pointed the ad-serving domains).  It makes things load
> > a lot faster and it's less distracting.
> >
> > As for pop-ups, unless your browser allows you to selectively disable
> > certain Javascript functions (as Konqueror might, but most other browsers
> > don't), the only way to get rid of them is to disable Javascript entirely
> > in your browser, which has certain other inconveniences (a lot of sites are
> > too poorly designed to work without it).
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Simon Siemonsma" <s.siemonsma@hccnet.nl>
> > To: "Daniel Thill" <thill@umr.edu>
> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 08:57
> > Subject: Re: Block WWW advertizing banners & auto spawn web pages using
> > ipfilt er or ipfw
> >
> > > In KDE it is possible you can set the web browser to dissable pop-ups.
> > > Setting -> Configure Konqueror -> Konqueror Browser -> JavaScript.
> > > The rest is easy to see.
> > >
> > > Simon Siemonsma
> > >
> > > On Thursday 27 December 2001 06:29, you wrote:
> > > > > Is there a way using firewalls to identify www advertising Banners &
> >
> > the
> >
> > > > > auto spawning of wed pages so they can be blocked?
> > > >
> > > > It doesn't involve firewalls, but check out the Junkbuster port.  It's
> > > > an http proxy server that allows you to filter out files by address and
> > > > regular expressions.  It can only block files though, not filter out
> > > > the popups.
> > > >
> > > > -dan
> > > >
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