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Shii
2003-11-10, 22:30
Website ads aren't really all that annoying. However, most of them are run by a few small companies. They can use cookies to track what websites you visit!

Here are opt-out links for major advertisers:
Doubleclick http://www.doubleclick.com/us/about_doubleclick/privacy/ - click "Ad Cookie Opt-Out"
Advertising http://www.advertising.com/OptOut2.html - verify
ValueClick http://www.mediaplex.com/mplx_privacy.shtml#_Toc41282072 - verify

Other advertisers, such as PayPal (http://www.paypalsucks.com/) and other scummy companies, don't have opt-out links. If you use I.E. (http://ashitaka-san.home.comcast.net/yayrant/ieharmful.html), you are out of luck. But if you use Mozilla (http://mozilla.org/), Netscape or Firebird, you can block banner ads with this nifty script:

http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Mozilla (http://mozilla.org/) also allows you to block cross-site cookies with the click of a button.
ZGMF-10A
2003-11-10, 22:54
ummm is this about popup killers???
Gattz
2003-11-10, 22:56
ummm is this about popup killers???

That is sarcasm right? ...
Dark Zero
2003-11-11, 00:03
Too Kill a pop-up, don't we all want that to happen.
Shii
2003-11-11, 00:54
Too Kill a pop-up, don't we all want that to happen.
I guess I didn't prostelytize Mozilla well enough ;)

It comes with automatic popup-blocking, too.
ElvenPath
2003-11-11, 10:59
And God created men
Men created Lavasoft
Lavasoft created Ad-Aware

For info:

http://lavasoft.element5.com/software/adaware

To download Ad-Aware:

http://lavasoft.element5.com/support/download
Shii
2003-11-11, 11:15
Yeah, but then you have to scan once a week to delete your cookies. :/
OFFSPRiNGCo16
2003-11-11, 12:48
Also in addition to Ad-Aware, there is Spybot Search and Destroy, which usually gets the stuff that Ad-Aware cant. Also, for really nasty bugs and spyware, Hijack This is always a good tool to have handy.
Its always good to delete your cookies and stuff once a week or so like ashibaka said, as well as have a good pop up stopper. Personally I use the program Zero Popup because it blocks adds, popup windows, popunders, messenger popups, stops pages from resizing IE, some spyware and stops floating adds.

Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/
Hijack This: http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/