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You mean like youtube ads that shows me the same ad for every 2 minute video I watch? Thank you ad blocks for being able to block all those annoying youtube ads.

Heh, no joke. My initial response to the first sentence of your post was, "Youtube has ads??". I really forgot that it did. My attitude towards advertising and most marketing is: fuck 'em. I actually used JunkBuster back in the days of Netscape and dial-up. It was an ad-filtering proxy -- browsers at that time had plug-ins but they did not have the capability for sophisticated extensions, so this was one of the only practical ways to block ads. The old URL (I still remember it!) was internet.junkbuster.com, but it hasn't been maintained in a long time. Now it just gives a link to EPIC and two privacy-related sites. According to Wikipedia, the proxy program itself hasn't been maintained since 1998.

Junkbusters was a group that advocated against advertising in all forms, especially direct marketing (professional nuisances). They provided that filtering proxy before much else was available, they gave advice on reducing physical junk mail, and (as this was prior to the Do Not Call list) gave tips to reduce or defeat telemarketing calls, if I recall correctly.

Am I the only one who remembers them?

Does anyone still use Junkbuster? I found it quite useful a while back. I suppose it wouldn't take much work to get it back up to snuff with easylist or something similar.

I never, ever see porn ads because I've got Adblock Plus installed in FF. If she prefers IE for some weird reason then just put an ad-filtering web-proxy on your network like Junkbuster.

You could also install IE7Pro. It adds the following:

"Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins, MiniDM, Google sponsored search,IE Faster and many more power packed features."

If she prefers IE for some weird reason then just put an ad-filtering web-proxy on your network like Junkbuster.

If she is clever enough to get IE to run properly on the aforementioned linux systems, she is clever enough to configure her own porn-blocker...

I never, ever see porn ads because I've got Adblock Plus installed in FF. If she prefers IE for some weird reason then just put an ad-filtering web-proxy on your network like Junkbuster.

Redirect all outbound connection attempts on port 80 through your router to that proxy and you'll be good to go. That way she won't have porn ads splashed in her face but she'll still be able to Google for hot guys with SafeSearch turned off :).

What I'd REALLY like is a browser that doesn't save cookies for sites I haven't bookmarked, or combine the ideas- cookies for sites not bookmarked aren't saved very long.

I use Internet Junkbuster for cookie whitelisting, for all of my browsers at once. It can also filter out Referer info for all but the sites you have cookie-whitelisted.

Camino would be much better if it had adblocking. I'll just stick to Safari and PithHelmet I guess.

Power IE is a good shareware toolbar which can block popups and ads had has various other useful features. It's considerably faster than using a proxy server to block ads, and you don't have that extra process running.

You can't say that all 3rd party browser add-ons are bad. You just have to be careful with what you install, especially stuff that is supposedly "FREE!!!!"

Junkbuster

works for most modern Operating systems and Windows based operating systems.

we added it at work and it made a 20% reduction in bandwidth use on it's own.

And to really kill ads, download and set up the Internet JunkBuster proxy, which has a blockfile you can use to filter out ad sites. A quick Google will find some nice blocklists you can use as a base to build your own.

Get 'em hooked, then they'll have to keep joining, once they see that the banners have once again quadrupled in size!

what banners? oh you mean those not running Junkbuster

Buy a slashdot subscription to support the site. dont buy one to get rid of ad's.

Note: you can modify junkbuster to only show the banners you want to see... I only see an AD when a thinkgeek ad pop's up. (hint: AD id field)

If you are so irritated by cookies, why don't you just install Junkbuster and set it up to drop all cookies? Or better yet, only allow cookies from sites you trust and then you can turn off cookie confirmations.

I would imagine that it would take you less time than you spend clicking on cookie dialogs in a day.

I honeslty don't remember what bfast.com is, at one point I went looking and decided to add them to my block list for JunkBuster all I get now is a little message saying that URL was blocked.

As others mentioned, it's in /etc/hosts

But if you want really effective blocking, you're much better off with something like Junkbuster.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]....? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise Edition 2003....Order today!"-esque ads.

Rob Nambla, Homos, CowboiKneel, Gayme, et al...: Get real fuckin' jobs!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]....? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise Edition 2003....Order today!"-esque ads.

Rob Nambla, Homos, CowboiKneel, Gayme, et al...: Get real fuckin' jobs!

Thank you.

Guess it's a good thing I use JunkBuster and wear my tin foil hat while surfing the web...

Have a day..

Yes, one way is to transparently proxy to junkbuster and have it rewrite the user agent.

In fact, here's my blockfile.

images2.slashdot.org
doubleclick.net
/*.*/banner/
/*.*/.*\.swf

Just download and install privoxy It's available for both Linux and Windows, and it's based on junkbuster but is much more powerful. The default settings will clear out 90+% of the banner ads and other distractions and you can fine-tune it to catch even more.

The ADS on $la$hdot and the O$DN ANNOY ME.

Ones that annoyme most,
$hit forge adverts, no one want's to risk developing critcal applications
with you so fuck off!

AnimeFu/Megatokyo adverts! Japanime sucks, so does slashdot!

Microsoft Visual Studio .net adverts! Why the FUCK are you letting the
devil advertise with you. Oh now I remember, open sores have no way to
make money so they ask big companies to support them!

Conclusion. Don't tolerate it! Don't subscribe to $la$hdot. Instead go
and install Junkbuster and say no to shitty adverts! The
ones found here are worser than the pr0n sites!

UW PICO(tm) 4.2 File: complaint.troll

The ADS on $la$hdot and the O$DN ANNOY ME.

Ones that annoyme most,
$hit forge adverts, no one want's to risk developing critcal applications
with you so fuck off!

AnimeFu/Megatokyo adverts! Japanime sucks, so does slashdot!

Microsoft Visual Studio .net adverts! Why the FUCK are you letting the
devil advertise with you. Oh now I remember, open sores have no way to
make money so they ask big companies to support them!

Conclusion. Don't tolerate it! Don't subscribe to $la$hdot. Instead go
and install Junkbuster and say no to sh$
ones found here are worser than the pr0n sites!

The ADS on $la$hdot and the O$DN ANNOY ME.

Ones that annoyme most,
$hit forge adverts, no one want's to risk developing critcal applications
with you so fuck off!

AnimeFu/Megatokyo adverts! Japanime sucks, so does slashdot!

Microsoft Visual Studio .net adverts! Why the FUCK are you letting the
devil advertise with you. Oh now I remember, open sores have no way to
make money so they ask big companies to support them!

Conclusion. Don't tolerate it! Don't subscribe to $la$hdot. Instead go
and install Junkbuster and say no to shitty adverts! The
ones found here are worser than the pr0n sites!

norrog@linux:~> cat complaint.troll
The ADS on $la$hdot and the O$DN ANNOY ME.

Ones that annoyme most,
$hit forge adverts, no one want's to risk developing critcal applications
with you so fuck off!

AnimeFu/Megatokyo adverts! Japanime sucks, so does slashdot!

Microsoft Visual Studio .net adverts! Why the FUCK are you letting the
devil advertise with you. Oh now I remember, open sores have no way to
make money so they ask big companies to support them!

Conclusion. Don't tolerate it! Don't subscribe to $la$hdot. Instead go
and install Junkbuster and say no to shitty adverts! The
ones found here are worser than the pr0n sites!

The ADS on $la$hdot and the O$DN ANNOY ME.

Ones that annoyme most,
$hit forge adverts, no one want's to risk developing critcal applications with you so fuck off!

AnimeFu/Megatokyo adverts! Japanime sucks, so does slashdot!

Microsoft Visual Studio .net adverts! Why the FUCK are you letting the devil advertise with you. Oh now I remember, open sores have no way to make money so they ask big companies to support them!

Conclusion. Don't tolerate it! Don't subscribe to $la$hdot. Instead go and install Junk buster and say no to shitty adverts! The ones found here are worser than the pr0n sites!

No one subscribes to their service! Intead they install Junk buster!. The lack of revenue means that they filed! TROLLS HAVE WON! THE PERSON WHO MODERATES THIS POST TO -1 will be added to my foes list!

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al...: GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al...:GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al...:GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do Y
OU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterpris
e 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al...:GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al...:GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al...:GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al...:GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al...:GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al...:GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al...:GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Mozilla is good, mozilla is great. The only thing keeping me from using it over Konqueror right now is the fact it seems to ignore my proxy setting. I use The Internet Junkbuster to remove unwanted (read: all) ads and other things. Mozilla up to RC1 seems to overlook this and I see ads all over the place. It may be due to JavaScript url fetching not going through the proxy, but I'm not sure

And don't tell me to use moz's built-in ad blocking, because I've already got a huge blockfile, I want to block for all browsers across the network, and it usually screws up rendering to use the builtin stuff anyway.

This is a great web browser; it's really faster than other GUI browsers I've used, renders nicely, and has all the features. But until it respects proxies (I use Squid to cache stuff too, helps a lot when all you've got is a modem), I can't use it. :-(

or more of the bugs across the bottom that state "brough to you by...". so if you want to watch the content, you have to see the addvertising at the same time.

Until someone invents a something like this for television. You might not be able to block out the ad "download" because a TV signal is one big signal, not individual files like a website and it's auxiliary banner ads, but you could certainly create something to modify the signal by putting a big black box over certain portions of the screen.

Well, if you want to block spam why not start at home.

But if it's Asian IP address blocks you are after you can use this to start looking.

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch: 'CInt'

/education/content/DonatedComputers.asp, line 63

This, to me, looks just soooooo unprofessinal... The same browser/proxy combo works on most other sites, except those Microsoft-driven ones and some sites which insist on getting a valid Referer: tag (which I block).

I know I would not want my companies website to display this nonsense to potential customers...

i don't know I use Junkbuster.

squid plus ad-zap (my choice) ;

junkbuster ;

proxomitron.

There may be others. Some tweaking required (not for subscribing, obviously :)

J U N K B U S T E R

Fuck Subscription!

Just say No to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 300x300 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002!!!... Order today!"-esque ads.


Let's face it.. VA's going down the shitter like a dingleberry and in two years Taco's going to be either 1) pimping Katy or Hemos to large black men or 2) saying rather unemphatically "would you like fries with that?" Sell off your anime DVD collection now, taco, 'cuz it's the unemployment line for you!

CmdrTaco: Like, I need a job. pls. thx.
Middle-aged black social-worker: Oh yeah? well what can you do?
CmdrTaco: Well, I can sit on my ass all day and watch Cowboy Beebop.. Sometimes I'll hack some perl.
MBSW: Hmm.. (thinks) I'll file this guy under "limited skill-set"

Hahahahahahha

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al..: GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 300x300 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al..: GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al..: GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al..: GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

Fuck Subscription!

J U N K B U S T E R

Just say NO to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 200x200 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002...! Order today."-esque ads.

CmdrTaco, Homos, Gayme, CowboiKneel, et. al..: GET REAL FUCKING JOBS!

Thank you.

This is an obvious act of desperation. Everyone knows that internet ads no longer pay any money. This is not 1998 anymore. Mostly, the only people who ever clicked on them were the newbies to the internet... and it didn't take long for them to learn their lesson. The rest of the people have either learned to ignore them or they use a proxy server like Junkbuster or Filterproxy .

This is so predictable. They say that history repeats itself, but this is too much for even me to deal with. Most websites that do this are dead within a year. Everybody knows that internet advertisers no longer pay any money. How much money do they expect to make from 0.2 cents a click when Slashdot caters mostly to internet veterans who have either learned to ignore adds or use a proxy server religiously?

Slashdot has become "a victim of its own success." Can you imagine how much money it must cost to pay for their bandwidth alone? If you've done a lot of browsing over the last 5 years and seen this happen to many of your favorite websites you know that intrusive adds are the first step. Next comes restricted usage for non-subscribers. Next comes access denied to non-subscribers. Next comes the obituary and farewells.

Bye bye Slashdot. We knew ye well. :-\