[Gllug] A little OT - suppressing Ads

Tue May 11 19:51:23 UTC 2004

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)
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