[Eug-lug] Blocking ad servers via host redirection, apache, and you.

[Michael Miller]

Alan,

Take a look at these two Firefox plugins.

Adblock Plus
Flashblock

You can also take a look at the Greasemonkey plugin.
Greasemonkey is a interesting plugin.  If you don't feel like writing
your own scripts for Greasemonkey.  Take a look at the user scripts
site. http://userscripts.org/

-Miller

On 10/11/07, Alan <euglug at thebucks.net> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> So, I recently started redirecting know adservers to 127.0.0.1, which
> speeds up web browsing tremendously on my older workstation.
> However, I've noticed that in a lot of pages, you get these really ugly
> embedded 404 frames, which is less than optimal.
>
> I'm thinking the best way to  deal with this is to just stick a webserver
> up, have it listen and serve out the same boring grey .gif for every
> request.
> I'm supposing that mod_something in apache can handle this.
>
> However, it occurs to me that someone else may have already solved this
> problem and being essentially lazy, I 'd like to use that one, but my
> google-fu is not strong this morning, as nothing has come up.
> Have any of you come across a solution to this vexing problem?
>
> Of course, it would be nice to have the boring grey .gif automatically
> match the background, and be the right size of the iframe. Maybe it could
> be a transparent .png?
>
> Is adblock_redirector_boring_grey_gif.pl out there already?
>
> -ajb
>
>
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