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  1. Re:Whoop-d-doo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 DoS Exploit
    Opera has an integrated ad blocker. Although it must be done enabled in the opera6.ini, it is just as effective as the FireFox extension. For a quick run-down:
    1. http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/
    2. "in opera url filter ini format", "no links back to this page", "view list as plain text" and click go
    3. Save everything that isn't prefixed with "#" to filter.ini
    4. Open your opera6.ini and add the line "URL Filter File=C:\filter.ini" under the "[Adv User Prefs]"
    5. Enjoy Opera + Adblock
    Like I say, it's not as easy to setup as the FireFox extension, but worth doing if you like Opera and hate adverts. Considering many that use AdBlock do a similar task to get a preset block list, this isn't any worse.
  2. Re:Mostly for sport by Eil · · Score: 1 · on Why Do You Block Ads?
    Whenever I run into an ad online, I'm compelled to view the source, close down my browser session, and tweak my userContent.css/hostperm.1 to block it.

    Yikes, that's a lot of work. If you're using Firefox or Mozilla (sounds like you are), get the adblock extension. It does what you're doing above, only far easier. Find an adserver host you can't stand? Click on the adblock icon, pick the URL that looks most like the ad, optionally modify it, and drop it into adblock's list. No looking at the page source, no closing the browser, no editing a file. You don't even have to reload the page to clear the ads.

    Something I've gotten into recently when installing Firefox on a friend/family member's machine is installing adblock and then using vim to munge this hosts file into a form that can be directly imported into AdBlock. Ends up looking something like:
    [Adlock]
    adhost1.com
    ad.host2.com
    (etc, etc)
    Import it into adblock and that takes care of 90% or more of web ads including banners, flash, cover-ads, and those newfangled underlined hover adlinks.

    When KDE 3.5 is out, Konqueror is supposedly going to have some facility identical to adblock. Looking forward to that.
  3. Adblock alternative in Opera by Phoinix · · Score: 1 · on Opera Free as in Beer

    The AdBlocker.css file works like a charm. Check out the "Opera config files". When coupled with the autoproxy option in eDexter, and a nice hosts file, you get an excellent AdBlock replacement.

  4. Time to fire up... by mav[LAG] · · Score: 2, Funny · on What's On Your Network?

    ..the BOFH excuse server. The random answer it gave me was singularly appropriate although unhelpfully honest:

    your excuse: because of network lag due to too many people playing deathmatch

  5. Re:I like Firefox for this... by mischief · · Score: 1 · on Marketers Back "Cookies Are Good For You" Campaign

    You can view the list in iptables format anyway:

    http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/iplist.php?ipformat= iptables

  6. Re:I like Firefox for this... by KillerBob · · Score: 1 · on Marketers Back "Cookies Are Good For You" Campaign

    I like ISC's BIND for this...

    When combined with a site, such as http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ you can blackhole adservers by FQDN. Since the cookies are sent by domain name, accessing the host by IP address won't do the cookies any good....

    There's also a list of IP addresses that can easily be imported into a set of iptables rules if you would rather block 'em by IP address.

  7. Re:how to get rid of ads? by diegocgteleline.es · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Google Upgrades AdSense

    Thanks!, so this page is the pointer I needed *duck*. Nice, it has lots of formats, from /etc/hosts to C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, to BIND and MS XML files....

  8. Blocklist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad

    I use adblock in combination with a blocklist of evil sites. A great place to get one of these is here. Configure the options at the top of the page to "Plain list of hostnames" with "no backlinks", download the list, insert a line at the otp of the file saying "[Adblock]", then go into Adblock preferences (Ctrl+Shift+P), and find "Import Filters". Goes a *really* long way toward killing off evil sites.

  9. Good site for ad blocking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Dial-Up Friendly Websites?

    http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers discusses many different ways of blocking adservers.

    I use a Windows version of the Squid proxy cache server to proxy everything (HTTP, HTTPS), I think I save around 15% bandwidth on average when repeating visits to web sites (most major websites are not cache-friendly); using the above site's blocking list in "dstdom_regex" format is very effective in speeding up browsing further by preventing ads from being fetched in the first place.

  10. Block the ad servers in etc/hosts by Zog+The+Undeniable · · Score: 1 · on Unicast Claims Success With Internet Commercials

    Yes, it works for Windows too (look in system32\drivers\etc\hosts). See here for details.

  11. Re:Feh by BoldAC · · Score: 2, Informative · on Pop-Up Ads Lead to Consumer Revolt, Ad-Blocking

    For those of you who want to eliminate a ton of ads using this method, you can find several friendly host files on the net.

    Here a couple that I have used:

    mvps.org

    yoyo.org

    AC

  12. Popups are easy to stop... by Izago909 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Judge OKs Competitive Pop-Up Ads

    Try using Firebird. I haven't seen a bulk ad or pup-up since I switched form mozilla. Even mozilla stopped almost every popup. It will run where you uncompress it, so you don't need privileges to install it. Download a plugin (aka extensions) called AdBlock. Go into the normal options and turn off unrequested popups. Also set the options so that only images from the originating server are downloaded. With AdBlock, you can block images by name server (ex. ads.x10.com). There is a comprehensive list that you can output in many block formats here).

  13. The Ultimate Answer to Banners Pop Ups and E'thing by reynaert · · Score: 1, Redundant · on Nationwide Class Action Filed Against DoubleClick
    Just add a few lines to your host file.

    Rather crude, but highly effective.

  14. I don't see them.. Hmm.. by AyeRoxor! · · Score: 2 · on Next-Gen Pop-up Ads

    I use a couple different databases for my hosts file, and I have disabled flash and javascript, only turning them on when I'm at a site that A) requires them, and B) I'm really really interested in.

    Voila, I may get 5 ads a day through servers not yet in my hosts file, and they get added immediately.

    There are ways to take back your internet experience.

  15. Re:Use Lynx, then you won't have a problem... by linzeal · · Score: 1 · on The Successor To Popunder Ads?

    There is a list of 384 ad servers over on this page last updated dec 7th this year :)

  16. Individual Function Linking by Milican · · Score: 3, Interesting · on LGPL or BSD-Style License for Media Codecs?
    Embedded developers don't want to include an entire library if all they need is one function. I am an embedded developer myself and I don't use common c functions like printf or scanf unless I know I have some memory to spare. The reason is because as soon as you use one of these functions the whole dern library with all the other zillion functions is linked into your executable, and this of course makes a big executable. Sometimes you can't fit your program into the scarce memory because of it.

    However, there is an elegant solution. The solution, which I discovered by using some ThreadX code, is to implement each function in a separate file. That way you only link in the functions you need on a function by function basis! The result for ThreadX is an extremely configurable kernel with very lean code size.

    Therefore, I think you should keep the library licensed as LGPL and separate all of the functions into individual source files. As you guys know the LGPL only governs the library not any of the files that use the library like GPL. So if you or anyone else (embedded developers too) makes changes to the library they are required to let everyone else know about it. This has nothing to do with the application. In this case the embedded developers seem to want the BSD license so they can only put in what they need of the code, or in a worst case scenario they may want to rape and pillage the code and not give back to the community.

    In summary, by keeping the code licensed under LGPL and separating your files out function by function your library will be lean for embedded developers, keep developers both commercial and non-commercial contributing to your code and prevent parasitic companies from making money off of your hard work without giving back a thing.

    As an additional guide here are some links regarding the license models:



    Enjoy.

    JOhn
  17. Re:Open source-ing Open Source Licenses? by Carlos+Laviola · · Score: 3, Informative · on OSI Approves Three New Licenses

    Try this, this (Slashdot story here) and this. HTH.

  18. interactive version by Zooko · · Score: 3, Informative · on Open Source License Comparison

    Check this out:

    Peter Lowe has written an interactive version of the License Quick Ref which shows you the table in a way that reflects your own biases. Ha!

    http://yoyo.org/~pgl/lqr/

    Regards,

    Zooko

    P.S. Despite my fears of massive slashdot flamage, there has actually been pretty much no flames, except for one from a certain unnamed Linux world journalist. Maybe the community is growing up! After all, Linux itself is 10 years old, so the first generation of Linux hackers are now in their late 20's at least.