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 > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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