[thelist] Tip: Banner blocking on OSX

Raymond Camden jedimaster at macromedia.com
Thu Dec 13 12:40:34 CST 2001


Another idea - you can use a CSS sheet to hide images that are in
standard ad sizes. A friend of mine made a CSS sheet for this, and it
doesn't (afaik) mess up CSS elements used on the site itself. You are
still downloading the ad, of course, but you just don't see it.

One more idea - creates a hosts file and add entries for most of the ad
serving hosts:

127.0.0.1	x10.com
127.0.0.1	ads.x10.com
127.0.0.1	www.x10.com
127.0.0.1	ads.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1	doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1	ad.doubleclick.net

This makes ads simply come up as broken images.

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Email    : jedimaster at macromedia.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org 
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Garrett Coakley
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:42 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] Tip: Banner blocking on OSX
> 
> 
> 
> FYI:
> 
> <tip author="Garrett Coakley" type="banner blocking on MacOSX">
> 
> You can now download a version of the Internet Junkbuster 
> proxy for Mac OSX. 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118&re
lease_id=64847






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