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You could also edit your cookie file (delete all the cookies you don't want), and rename it. Copy that version to the main cookie file every time you start your browser (use a shell script with commands like "cp -f ~/.netscape/cookies.ok ~/.netscape/cookies ; netscape" for Netscape on UNIX). This way you wouldn't have to install any software.

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add-header Cache-Control: max-age=0
add-header Pragma: no-cache

You'll still be redirected through the cache server; there's nothing you can do about that. But the cache server will never try to fill your requests, so you'll always get fresh data. Our ISP tried a cache server too; as far as I know they're still using it, but we finally got our range of IPs excluded. While they were still caching us, though, this approach worked.

:-) Not to miss the point here, but Universal wouldn't have had me see the advertisement either way. I'm using this cutting edge piece of technology thing called a proxy! Yes, you, too can have the fun of not looking at advertisements. It also doubles as a fun way of letting all my LAN machines load webpages quickly. www.junkbuster.com for the plain-jane ver,
www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/ for the blank-image patched ver + central blocklist :-)

The Internet Junkbuster

will do what you want for every site you go to.

use junkbuster..

it will get rid of those ugly ads..

Is it just my damn 'puter, or is this thing /.'ed already?
Does anyone else have a problem connecting to that server, or is my dear junkbuster causing problems?

It's also really nice to see a search engine with no banner ads, they really get on my nerves (even though I don't see many, thanks to Junkbuster --- awesome program.

Use junkbuster - gets rids of ads and such, and solves this problem too.

http://www.junkbuster.com.

-- http://www.wholepop.com/
Whole Pop Magazine Online - Pop Culture

Here's a gem that will help save you lots of needless image downloading. Check out JunkBuster. It's a simple HTTP proxy that filters out ads in a manner that you configure. Source code available under the General Public License.

Lots of people have "blockfiles" out there, and the JunkBuster FAQ has a link to an Altavista query to find one.

Of course, I would NEVER use this against Slashdot, even though those !@$*% Adfu ads never close their TCP connections.

We already see it on TV, in magazines and newspapers, and on web pages. Just like in the other medias, the media will be re-formed (deformed?) to fit around the ads.

At first a sort of shell will form, and the distinction between ad and program will be quite distinct. With time and experience the ads will get better at controlling beyond the bounds of their shell, although the shell itself will appear to be quite rigid, formalized and impermeable.

For a biological metaphor, I'm reminded of the way a parasite invades a host and then uses the host's own cellular material to reproduce and package itself for transmission.

As in the other medias, there will be a full range of ad saturations to choose from; from all-dressed to birthday suit.

A decade or so from now, ads-in-programs will be nearly ubiquitous and regarded as a necessary, or at least an I-can't-do-anything-about-it, annoyance.

Myself, I will avoid programs-which-carry-ads the same way I avoid ads elsewhere. I record my TV and watch from tape, fast-forwarding through the commercials, editing them out all together for a keepable movie. I don't buy magazines with ads, or of they have 'em, I rip them out before I start reading (I hate mags which don't put ad's on both sides of the page...), or I don't buy unless I _really_ want it. For web-pages, the Junkbuster is my best friend.

All that being said, ads-in-programs will probably only survive in an online, constantly updating network environment (they need a constant stream of fresh nutrients). 'Mr.WordProcessor' won't have them, except maybe in a thin client setting.

Well, there's $0.05

-matt

Well, perhaps it's Open Source software, and you can change it, but the super cool license says you can't redistribute the changes.

Using Lynx for years as I did, I missed the rise in banner ads, really. I just saw links to "Click here!" and doubleclick and so on. When I got Netscape, I started taking about 10 times longer to download pages, and they all had these damned "Click here for your speed" and on clicking, you got redirected to adverts. It took me not very long at all to realise why people had eulogised the Internet Junkbuster. I have a slow link, and this program _really_ _helps_ cut down on the rubbish. Now if only they recognised content-free sites...:) Deals with a lot of other things, too, like cookies. It's not a block all/block none choice, either; you can select places you do trust with cookies. Definitely recommended: makes the web a lot faster. For those of us unlike Katz who don't feel compelled to give all sources of information equal priority, it's a handy thing.

The view-setting menus on each page are cool, but they should not change the user's preferences. It would be better to be able to change the view settings for each window independently, without the changes becoming permanent

I agree, but there is a way around this: I run Junkbuster to filter out ads. By default, it also filters out cookies. So, to let slashdot save its cookie, I had to add slashdot.org to /etc/junkbuster/cookiefile . After you do that, exit your browser, and change ``slashdot.org'' to ``>slashdot.org'' to make it be willing to send cookies to slashdot, but not to receive them. That way, you'll log in by default, but slashdot won't be able to change your settings.

Of course if you want to change the global defaults in the future, you need to muck around with cookiefile again.

Hey, maybe we should kill the banner ads, too.
Entirely unnecessary for those of us who use The Internet Junkbuster...:)

No they don't. Hackers rule. And hackers created Junkbuster which lets you filter out the mind pollution created by the suits. It's a beautiful tool and hits the suits where it hurts.

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Am I alone on being against banner ads taking up bandwidth? Sure Slashdot deserves the money, but I'm one to always hit mute during advertisements, and if that's not possible I use some type of ad blocker.

If you were the genuine MEEPT!!, I wouldn't be responding to you, but you aren't, so here I am..

Junkbuster is a great way to get rid of BOTH those stale cookies, and flush out their ads at the same time. Try it.