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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:06:23 +0000
From:      Simon Siemonsma <s.siemonsma@hccnet.nl>
To:        "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Block WWW advertizing banners & auto spawn web pages using ipfilt er or ipfw
Message-ID:  <200112272001.VAA23530@smtp.hccnet.nl>
In-Reply-To: <007701c18eaa$7be42ba0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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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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