[WEB4LIB] Blocking banner ads

Eric Hellman eric at openly.com
Thu Aug 10 11:47:45 EDT 2000


Read all about it:

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/%7Eatman/spam/adblock.shtml

What you're doing is fooling your computer's networking software to 
think that these major ad serving sites are located on your computer.

At 8:18 AM -0700 8/10/00, John Williams wrote:
>A recent article in Linux Journal described a method of blocking banner ads by
>replacing them with a local file - the Apache URL renaming function was used.
>
>Does anyone know of any Windows95/98/NT software that can perform a similar
>service?
>
>
>John Williams
>Bologna, Italy



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