Die, Annoying Ad Banners, Die

Sep. 27th, 2002 at 11:23 PM

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I haven't seen a pop-up window in ages - Mozilla so rules.

I haven't seen a third party ad banner in ages. I'm mapping as many ad banner sites as I can find to "127.0.0.1" in my /etc/hosts. I was given a really good list to start and I added ones that I found along the way. Then, I'm running a tiny personal web server (mem: 1.7M) on my machine to serve up a transparent image in the place of the ad banner image.

The Internet is very quiet.

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badkarma_05

Sep. 28th, 2002 04:12 am (UTC)

"I'm running a tiny personal web server (mem: 1.7M) on my machine to serve up a transparent image in the place of the ad banner image."

You're a genius! That's a fantastic idea.

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bride

Sep. 28th, 2002 10:20 am (UTC)

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Heehee, s'ank you *bow*. IE5 used to pop up an "image not found on server" error or something like that for every image that got blocked.

So if a page had a zillion ads, I had to sit there closing all zillion error boxes before I could do anything... =P

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