I found this idea of a kazaa lite website on how to get rid of ads & popups : adding entries to the hosts file !. This is brilliant.
All you have to do is add entries such as these
127.0.0.1 ad.adsmart.net
127.0.0.1 ad.ca.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.de.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.es.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.fr.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.free6.com
127.0.0.1 ad.it.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.iwin.com
and ads can no longer get served from there !
I have been surfing a bit since doing this and it seems like many sites are now serving ads from their own domain so this won't work all the time :(
Follow-up: I got a bit carried away : it won't prevent popups... it will just prevent them from displaying anything...
Posted by pgirolami76 at February 22, 2003 10:16 AM | TrackBackI started doing this over a year ago: you're right it isn't perfect, but it really cuts things down. The best way to get rid of popups is to install Mozilla and instruct it to disallow "unrequested new windows".
Posted by: Lance at February 22, 2003 03:59 PMDoes this mozilla installation also slow down the PC?
Posted by: Rocketmen at May 25, 2003 03:41 AMPanicWare's Popup Stopper works great for me. I haven't noticed any adware riding in on it... yet.
Posted by: Professr at June 26, 2003 10:04 PMMozilla seemed to have slowed down my PC but Panic Ware is working great except it wont let me open my email page. Have to start without enabling it, then enable. Also writing my own notepad generated webpages, it wont allow me to view my page in IE without doing the same.
Posted by: Ute Kelly at August 2, 2003 09:29 PMIf you want to open a page, just press the "shift" key at the same time you click on the link and PanicWare will open it. :)
Posted by: Lilou at August 23, 2003 05:22 PM