Subject: Re: DAMNED Advertizers!
To: None <kent@goathill.org>
From: Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/24/2000 10:54:28
On Sun, Sep 24 2000 at 03:33:31 +0000, Kent Polk wrote:
> On 23 Sep 2000 10:05:00 -0500, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> >
> >aside from adzap and squid, you could also try junkbuster, which doesn't
> >seem to have made its way to pkgsrc yet...
> >
> >http://www.junkbuster.com/ijb.html
> 
> Now, I have next to no long-term memory, however, I see that I used
> *something* to install junkbuster in the pkg path last Feb:
> 
[...]
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  73728 Feb 11  2000 /usr/pkg/bin/junkbuster
> 
> However:
> pkg_info: can't find package `junkbuster' installed or in a file!
The package is called "ijb", it's in the "www" category.

[...]
> I can highly recommend junkbuster. Especially when you want to
> block the *29* ad gifs in certain pages that I've seen it block
> before... (yes, you read that correctly, I've seen it block up to
> 29 ad gifs that were referenced in one URL request). One unintended
> benefit is that my http requests load about 10 times faster with
> it.
Or those "invisible" counters (1x1 gifs) many pages of "commercial" sites
use..


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