2008/2/27 Charles Shapiro <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>>:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As a member of the Vast Corporate Fat Conspiracy who spends his days
figuring out how to abuse users to the maximal extent, I can tell
you one concrete step you can take to keep the noise to a
minimum. On my home machines, I have a modified /etc/hosts file
which points most advertising sites to /dev/null. You can find a copy
just by goin' a googlin' on the Mighty Internet for "hosts files
advertising block". Here's ( <a href="http://everythingisnt.com/hosts" target="_blank">http://everythingisnt.com/hosts</a> ) one
example. Naturally I don't use such a thing at work, where I'm
_paid_ to deal with advertisements. And of course this won't
really help if you choose to actually visit yahoo, <a href="http://aol.com" target="_blank">aol.com</a>, or some
other evil site.</blockquote><div><br>I implemented something similar on my WRT54G with the Tomato firmware using dnsmasq[1]. The problem with this I found was that you either get a page not found error instead of the advert or you can forward the request to a blank page. Either way, it's still distracting. I found a few firefox addons that most of you are prob familiar with (adblock, flashblock, noscript). But a few weeks ago I found a real gem called Remove it Permanently (RIP) [2]. It allows you to right-click on any element of a webpage and make it so you never see it again, even when you come back and revisit the site and with NO ugly blank space remaining. *maniacal laugh*<br>
<br>-Steve Brown<br><br>1)http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=53904&page=3<br>2)https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/521<br> </div></div><br>