[Kitsune]

[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.

[DragonClaw]

They aren't that hard to find...

[Kitsune]

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.

[Stealth]

so instead of it loading popup banners it loads up 'new windows' with 404 errors and little red 'x's in it

lol

doesn't sound TOO good, but it's better than using all your bandwidth loading them in the first place

[Kitsune]

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.  

[Sandwich]

ALERT!!! HAMCON LEVEL 5!!!!!!! THREAD ON VERGE OF BEING LOCKED!!!!!!!122

LOL - guys, first of all, uhm... stop being paranoid.

Secondly, get WebWasher to block all those nasty pop-ups, naughty javascripts and annoying x10 wireless surveillance camera ads.


I'm almost tempted to make this sticky.

[Kitsune]

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.

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...