[rescue] Punch the Monkey (was: SS2 memory?)

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Thu Mar 7 19:01:20 CST 2002


> I personally found Squid useful for doing things like replacing (with blank
> gray bars) all traffic coming from  ad.* ads.* *.doubleclick.net
> *.flycast.com, etc.
>
> Sped up the loading of most webpages noticeably when I was on a 33.6 dialup
> line, not to mention eliminating the aggravation of those f#@%*#g banner ads.
> (especially punch the monkey, I'd like to find the idiot that came up with
> THAT stupid and annoying thing and punch *him*)

What about filtering out javascript based pop-ups?  I hate having to spend
my time flipping around my javascript settings so I can use this one page
that requires JS and then turning it back off to keep the annoying pop-up,
pop-under, pop-goes-the-fucking-weasel ads off.



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