Ad blocking

Hi Jacky,

I'm using proxymitron now and it is working very well indeed.
http://thewebfairy.com/prox/

My yahoogroups browsing is now ad free, & same for
other sites too like mp3.com.

It works by re-writing the html , so that means that you don't
have a big blank square for the banner ad as you do with other methods.

You just see a single line of text "click here", or a little
patch of red text saying [Ad] (underlined)

First time one runs it, one may still have old ads in ones
Windows cache - one can clear them out by right click to check the
name of the image, and search in temporary interenet files
to find it and delete it. (or of course just empty ones web cache).

It works on ones own machine (as a proxy server) so one
isn't dependent on connection to a remote site.

It's a neat program - I got the idea about how to add textures
to FTS by looking at it.

Occ. you come across an ad it doesn't block & need to add that in.
Some recent yahoogroups ads have been using
http://us.a1.yimg.com/
so I've blocked that, which got rid of them.

I also found it wasn't showing the FTS web site stats, but that was
because sitemeter is on the list of blocked urls, - so had
to be removed before I could see them - I suppose that is
because of the sitemeter graphic at the bottom of every page
with the counter on it.

Anyway, now all my browsing is blissfully ad free :-).

Reading posts off-line is also nice, kind of leisurely
way of doing things. We have a high volume here, but
other lists may have posts every few days, and they
can go on for years like that, so one doesn't have to
have quite such a rapid turn around of the conversations
all the time.

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You do still get the extra page at times but it is just a blank
page with the [Ad here] thing on it so it isn't so distracting at all.

Also the mp3.com ads - I was browsing there the other day and
suddenly the whole browser window turned gray so that one couldn't
read anything in it any more - it turned out to be an advert
to join the US army. You had to click a button to dismiss it
in order to continue. It happened twice.

Anyway proxymitron gets rid of all the mp3.com ads too.

You have to set up your browser to use a proxy server to use
it but there is nothing to that - in Win 98:

You go to Tools | Internet Ooptions | Connections
| Settings, select use a proxy server, and then go to
Advanced | proxy address & enter address: localhost Port: 8088

- explained somewhere in the help for proxymitron.

I wonder what will happen if everyone starts to use proxymitron
and the like? Maybe more and more disguised urls in the adverts...

Anyway it is working well at this present time.

Robert