[Gllug] A little OT - suppressing Ads

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:51:23PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 20:46, Ian Northeast wrote:
> > This isn't really about Linux (although I do run some nameservers on
> > Linux) but I think there will be folks here with valuable
> > opinions/experience.
> >
> > I am considering suppressing adverts on websites for our users by
> > pointing *.doubleclick.net at 127.0.0.1 on the internal nameservers. I
> > have done it on the home network to test it. 
> 
> 
> Why not use squid and just block access to these sites? That's what I did at 
> the last place I worked - users got error patches for these ads, but using 
> squid speeded browsing twice over as it were (it also allowed me to block 
> gator)

I have this in place at home and now I'm used to it I can't stand surfing
without it. I'd say the cleansing experience is similar to my move from
IE to Mozilla and blocking popups (well, maybe not _that_ good).

I even love adding a newly found adserver and remaking the db!

Speeds up browsing too without all those bloaty images/animations.

Ben
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