Banner Ad Kill...?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I read in the Letters to the Editor in the current issue of Computer Currents that there is a way to kill those @$%&*! banner ads and popup windows.
The URL for the letters section is: http://www.computercurrents.com/lett
It’s in the 1/11/00 issue. The header of the letter is “Free/Zero.Access”. (Sound like a message to the Finder, don’t it?)
I hope this helps, everyone.

(Basic summary: run your connection through McAfee Guardian, but I think there’s more to it.)

JMcC, San Francisco, JJM’s page from the Bay
If I were beaned with a fastball, fling my limp, lifeless body to first, cause, dammit, I earned it!

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Its easy to turn off pop ups…

Turn off your javascript.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman

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Get something like Ads Off. Not only does it stop the banners and popups from loading, it makes your browser ignore the code for them. Really speeds up your connection!

-David

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I agree, ADSOFF works really well. You can even adjust its “sensitivity” to banners and pop-up windows. (There are some pages that are unable to load if you adopt a scorched earth policy to advertising.) It works great on the SDMB, though–no more Rosenbaum banners!

“I know a place where dreams get crushed, hopes are smashed, but that ain’t much.”

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My java has never ever worked no matter what I fix, so I gave up.But I still get banner ads.

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Does anyone have a copy of the file? I couldn’t get it from their site and couldn’t find any mirrors either :frowning:

I’m a straight as an arrow when and drunk :slight_smile:

-Omniscient

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Yeah, weher’s this ADSOFF thing ? I want it, but can’t find it. Is it free ? Hey, I’m Dutch, I have a national image to uphold :wink:

Coldfire: second to none but Satan.

“You know how complex women are”

  • Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
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You used to be able to get AdsOff at the developer’s web site (www.intercantech.com), but it looks like they are redesigning the site right now. The version that I downloaded a couple years back is about 1.5 MB.

There is another filtering package I found called InterMute. You can download a fully functional demo that works for 14 days at the developer’s web site (www.intermute.com). Registering the copy will set you back about $20 (US). Don’t know how well it works, but at least it’s available.

“I know a place where dreams get crushed, hopes are smashed, but that ain’t much.”

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It appears that AdsOff is still available from the following link:
http://199.217.92.26/Details/HTML/Adsoff.htm

Coldfire: second to none but Satan.

“You know how complex women are”

  • Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
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Does it really work on NetZero? I know their software would check something like that, also NZ uses a 30 minute resume button.

There are ways to close the NZ banners but Im not getting into that.