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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kitsune on August 22, 2002, 04:05:38 pm
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[Frankenstein] Ads BAD! Pop-ups BAD! Bandwidth GOOD![/frank]
I found a file in windows that you can edit to stop banners ads, images, html's or anything from loading from specific sites.
This causes your computer to not load anything from a specific URL or domain name. If a website refers to it, then it will show as a red X or a 404 error.
I have a large list, but to keep gamespy and the admins happy you'll have to PM me and I'll share them that way.
Granted I realize we don't have any pop-ups or stuff here, but well, the rest of the net is full of them.
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They aren't that hard to find...
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No they're not that hard to find, neither are programs that run in the background squashing them, however I hate having extra programs sucking up resources and-or crashing randomly and taking my computer with it.
Since this is all done in notepad, there's no external proggie to screw it up.
And I didn't want to post it out here, for while it'd be convenient, it'd get locked in a hurry to keep gamespy happy.
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so instead of it loading popup banners it loads up 'new windows' with 404 errors and little red 'x's in it :D
lol
doesn't sound TOO good, but it's better than using all your bandwidth loading them in the first place :D
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No, if the ad shown was imbedded in a webpage in a frame (like is common via most free sites) or has a popup window, the window will have nothing in it, and since it's a 404, it can't spawn windows of it's own.
I once ran across a website that spawned 2 pop-ups, (A & B) but those pop-ups were linked to spawn each other! (So A would pop-up B, and after it loads, B would pop up another A...)
And each of them were set to link your homepage to be the original site.
It was a pain to deal with since they were simple .html's about 1k in size.
I watched it crash windows (not the hardest thing to do mind you.) then I had to restart, open IE's properties, change my homepage manually...
Another good thing is if you want to keep family from going to certain websites. :nod:
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ALERT!!! HAMCON LEVEL 5!!!!!!! THREAD ON VERGE OF BEING LOCKED!!!!!!!122
LOL - guys, first of all, uhm... stop being paranoid.
Secondly, get WebWasher (http://www.webwasher.com/) to block all those nasty pop-ups, naughty javascripts and annoying x10 wireless surveillance camera ads. :D
I'm almost tempted to make this sticky. :p
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Malicious Java? Norton kills that for me, and handles virii too. (It's nice getting a warning screen when a webpage tries to write to my favorites or desktop or something else).
I'm almost tempted to make this sticky. :p
:eek2: Don't you dare sticky-fy any thread I post! Cause I don't think I've had anything to share that's worth more than a few days worth of notice anyhow...