On 10-08-07 04:49 PM, Sean Walberg wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Mike Pfaifferhigh.res.mike@gmail.comwrote:
That's already included in Firefox isn't it? Then I already havethat running. Unfortunately Firefox doesn't always block up popups. It will get about 80% of them but the additional 20% can be just as annoying. Then there are the banner ads too. The increase in speed by blocking just a few of their servers is noticeable.
I don't know what kind of sites you visit, but I don't get many popups these days. Now that my day job involves Internet marketing, I'm actually interested to see how people monetize their sites and what's being advertised out there, so I don't use any ad blocking.
It's going to sound childish for someone my age... I visit comic strip pages. For example comics.com and gocomics.com. I really admire people who can express themselves through drawing. I was commenting to one of the sysadmins how their site was slow. I suggested they were running Windows. They got indignant and said they were running Solaris. ;-) As I said, blocking the ad sites makes a noticeable result in page load times. Of course other sites like Digg seem to be having generic problems regardless of the ad sites I block.
The teacher at the lab is absolutely sold on the idea of using the hosts file to block out places like porn sites, gambling sites, facebook, and places like the pirate bay. For classroom machines I can see his point. Particularly since they are going through a different subnet than we are.
Sean
Later Mike
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