Ad-blocker

please recommend me a good free one. go on, go on.

 

please recommend me a good free one. go on, go on.

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http://www.proxomitron.info/

It's free and it works.

I've not seen a pop-up since installing it - and it does a lot of
other stuff too. Just remember to click on the Proxomitron logo after
a restart, before you go surfing (otherwise it won't let you access
the net, see) and away you go.

 

If you're on Windows and use IE, then download the Google toolbar, as it
blocks pop-up ads very well. Mozilla has recently duplicated this
functionality in its browser.

 

nice one Pip. I like this one. Before, I just stuck a list of all the
adservers in the world into the windows hosts file and set their addresses
to be localhost, which worked, insomuch as inline ad frames on webpages
just looked like little 404 pages. The disadvantage was that you needed to
hit the back button several timea to back out of a page with several ad
frames on. This sorts that problem neatly.

Ta M8

 

No. Don't. Honestly, it's not a good idea.

 

I thought that the google toolbar was spyware, is that why?

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What Pip says...

Good bit of kit it is, does what it says on the tin, and a hell of a lot
more. Should be a standard bit of kit on every web connected Windows box.

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tallbloke wrote

I just been to this site using opera and from what I can see on the test
page I have already got it turned on enough and don't need no extra pop
up killer stuff. Which is nice.

 

That's the puppy

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[snip]

It asks you whether you want to send information to Google when you install
it, it's quite simple to click 'no'.

 

http://toolbar.google.com

 

It's spyware in the sense that it tells Google what you've been
searching for and your IP etc, yes. But then they can glean that
information from you using the webpage.

 

Gingerposer was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Mozilla Firebird is *very* good at blocking pop-ups and -unders.

 

Turn the computer off and listen to Radio Four.

 

I recommend the use of the google proxy at
http://www.google-watch.org/cgi-bin/proxy.htm

for subject matter sensitive searches.

 

Lol, the naievete of youth.

 

Just because I make use of the sites proxy onto google it doesn't follow
that I believe the content of the site does it Champ?

Not at the school of logic I went to.

Not sure what you are referring to anyway, it's all pretty factual stuff
that you can draw your own conclusions from, or not.

 

Ok.

But remember, just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they're not
watching you ;-)

 

Champ <> spouted the following in

from the site:

Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This
means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has
complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which
is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if
you'd like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates
automatically presents a massive security risk.

Not particularly 'X Files' is it?