Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:52:35 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers Message-ID: <1357573955.78605.YahooMailNeo@web165004.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20130107143411.2cc11ca1@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20130107034037.GA16500@ethic.thought.org> <20130107143235.dafe69f0.freebsd@edvax.de> <20130107143411.2cc11ca1@gumby.homeunix.com>
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________________________________ From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 9:34 AM Subject: Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:32:35 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > Today I don't need to deal with this question anymore. I've > been using a "two browsers approach": Firefox with "Flash" > installed, everything works as intended, and Opera as my > main browser, with "Flash" deactivated, and quite picky > about what sites are allowed to do. If I urgently need to > access something that doesn't show in Opera, I'll use > Firefox for this one occassion. :-) There's also an Opera setting "enable plugins only on on demand". With that setting if you click on a place-holder it becomes activated until you leave the page. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" It is indeed a sad fact of life that surfing the web has become so bloated with ads of every kind imaginable. I watched this morning as it took several minutes just for a yahoo page to load because it was stuffed full of advertisements. I recall the good ole days back in 1996 when the Internet first started and ads were not to be found. I think we have lost our way and the Internet has become a boondoggle with everyone shouting and competing for money instead of the free and open exchange of information. I'm no prude. I think ads have their place. But just like this posting shows, there is no simple, sure-fire way to just turn them off when you don't want them. If you change the settings on Flash or other plug-ins you may very well inhibit your ability to do what you want with the net. I just wish there was a way to stop all this non-sense of ads for everything from consuming my bandwidth. From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 14:44:22 2013 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13FC7DDF for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:44:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from graudeejs@yandex.ru) Received: from forward11.mail.yandex.net (forward11.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:801::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF876E2A for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web22f.yandex.ru (web22f.yandex.ru [95.108.130.9]) by forward11.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 46FD7E81436; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:44:19 +0400 (MSK) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by web22f.yandex.ru (Yandex) with ESMTP id B3A164A28014; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:44:18 +0400 (MSK) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1357569858; bh=HBcpcj8w42c3qK8JNCleMQftVcKAwagU26domwob6w4=; h=From:To:In-Reply-To:References:Subject:Date; b=Ui+C8kb3etWbmhcEvuwb7bsfnJ9Nr2isgo4BqgSIPuy4zkWxTslwKwmA5XFuuedCf s4rE5OhDZQGODtKD5gZjPnZJbuGU/tkZ5R+DrqLRqjQFAIf+TV7JnHUzuYyTj2glZD K/LGcjarNe4NRnlxJX/3vBnN6H30qEbJxs0DLZmw= Received: from office.cubesystems.lv (office.cubesystems.lv [80.233.216.170]) by web22f.yandex.ru with HTTP; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:44:18 +0400 From: Aldis Berjoza <graudeejs@yandex.com> Envelope-From: graudeejs@yandex.ru To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20130107034037.GA16500@ethic.thought.org> References: <20130107034037.GA16500@ethic.thought.org> Subject: Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <242201357569858@web22f.yandex.ru> X-Mailer: Yamail [ http://yandex.ru ] 5.0 Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:44:18 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:54:13 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:44:22 -0000 07.01.2013, 05:43, "Gary Kline" <kline@thought.org>: > itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should > use. > > firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. > > thanks for some tips, > > gary > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. > I use dns/pdnsd to block (with dns) many advertisement sites, facebook, twitter.... etc I also use www/privoxy for html content blocking Finally if something remains, that I can't filter, then I use ad-block -- Aldis Berjoza FreeBSD addict
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