2003-11-10, 22:30 | Link #1 |
Afflicted by the vanities
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fish-shape Paumanok
Age: 36
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Stay private on the Interweb :)
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_...click/privacy/ - click "Ad Cookie Opt-Out" Advertising http://www.advertising.com/OptOut2.html - verify ValueClick http://www.mediaplex.com/mplx_privac...l#_Toc41282072 - verify Other advertisers, such as PayPal and other scummy companies, don't have opt-out links. If you use I.E., you are out of luck. But if you use Mozilla, Netscape or Firebird, you can block banner ads with this nifty script: http://adblock.mozdev.org/ Mozilla also allows you to block cross-site cookies with the click of a button.
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2003-11-11, 00:54 | Link #5 | |
Afflicted by the vanities
Fansubber
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fish-shape Paumanok
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Quote:
It comes with automatic popup-blocking, too.
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2003-11-11, 10:59 | Link #6 |
a step away from heaven
Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: U.K. London
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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
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2003-11-11, 12:48 | Link #8 |
Godlike
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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/ |
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