[thelist] blocking doubleclick

isaac forman wrote:
> i tried chris' tip this morning, and just removed it then. i'd love to block
> doubleclick, but it effects browsing slashdot and other news sites (as laurel
> mentioned).

What exactly does it affect on slashdot for you?
 
> <?>
> if slashdot is so pro-privacy, and insist that they have control over slashdot
> despite the two sell-outs, why wouldn't they require that any advertisements
> come from a verified pro-privacy banner advertiser?
> </?>

Slashdot doesn't use doubleclick to serve their banner ads, rather a
homebuilt solution called adfu - which is written in perl.
(oops, hit send to quick there sorry)

http://www.blockstackers.com/adfu.shtml

Also, who exactly is advertising on their site that isn't pro-privacy?
The majority of the ads i've seen are from linux hardware/software
comapanies that release many of their products under the GPL, and would
be a proponent of privacy..

<tip type="blocking doubleclick from linux">
If you're on a unix/linux system with ipchains, forming a chain to block
doubleclick is pretty easy:
ipchains -A output -d 205.138.3.0/24 -j REJECT
ipchains -A output -d 209.67.38.0/24 -j REJECT

Be careful though, doubleclick tries to be smart and put servers on
different IP ranges across the net to try to outsmart this kind of
filtering - so keep it updated.

</tip>

.djc.