Re: Revenge on the Nerds -Maureen on a rampage

[bill.stewart@pobox.com]

For now, most of those services all live on machines dedicated
to the banner service, rather than on the same machine as the server.
Making machines vanish is easy - put them in your hosts file as
aliases to 127.0.0.2, and if you're behind a proxy server,
put them on your "no proxy" list.  Of course, if everybody
starts doing this, then more systems will start using ad servers
that have names in their own domain, but it works for now on
most of the major servers.  I've found that killing doubleclick.net
and linkexchange.com gets rid of most of the banners.

What I'd really like to see in a browser is an option to
turn off animated GIFs (other than by killing all images.)

>>> Speaking of browsers: I'd rather *pay* for a browser that has such an obvious
>>> feature as a list of URL regexps that you don't want to browse. Neither IE
>>> nor Netscape has it. I don't know about Lynx.  I'm now using junkbuster
>>> from www.junkbuster.com (highly recommended) to filter out ads and banners
>>> and cookies. I generally think WWW sucks; but if I use it, I want to be able
>>> to tell the browser that if the page tried to load an image from a URL
>>> that looks like
>>> 
>>> valueclick.com
>>> bannermall.com
...
>>I suggest writing a proxy server that does such filtering, running it on 
>>the local machine, and using it as proxy server from your netscape browser.
>>
>>There is a proxy server in form of a 20 line perl script, you
>>can take it and modify it.
>
>If you have a unix box, try using the roxen web/proxy server.  It has a
>regexp module that does exactly this. http://www.roxen.com

				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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