Stephen Worthington wrote:

>** Reply to message from "Stanley Sidlov"
 on
>Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:38:39 -0400 (EDT)
>
>>On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:43:55 -0300, htravis{at}attglobal.net wrote:
>>Gratefully, things like GAIN etc probably don't run on OS/2.
However, we DO get Tracking Cookies which are 90% of all so called spyware
on Windows. Each scan of Adware Pro or Spybot, removes more of these than
anything else. Unfortunately unless you are very proactive turning off
cookies will be more of a PITA than its worth. Even with expiration dates
with so many subscription based sites on the web, it would be inconvenient
to not be 
>>able to have the browser remember the access codes. Popup blockers
can manage some of this. But I find it amusing on my 10mb connection that
web pages at major corporations are waiting for servers at DoubleClick and
other advertising sites to deal their ads to me before the page renders
out.
>>    
>>
>I have use Privoxy (www.privoxy.org) to filter out a large proportion
>of the ads.  It's standard rules get a lot of them and I have added my
>own blocks as I ran across annoying sites they miss.  I never see
>Doubleclick anymore - it is completely blocked.  As are a lot of
>counter sites too - if a site wants to count, then I consider it must
>do it itself, not allow a third party to know about my vist.  Counters
>are also a frequent cause of pages waiting to render too - why wait for
>a slow counter site when you can just block it?
>
>I also run with cookies set to "Ask first".  When I use a site where I
>need the cookies, I just allow them for that site and then I am not
>asked again for the site.  It is amazing how many sites use cookies to
>track you so that they can tell how many vistors they have and how many
>pages they go to.  There are other, server-side, ways to do this that
>do not require cookies.  From my point of view, any cookie that does
>not do work for me and only works for the site is a useless waste of
>space and bandwidth and will not be permitted.  It is now second nature
>to visit a new site for the first time, have a cookie pop up, have my
>brain automatically assess the cookie, decide it is another useless
>one, and tell Mozilla to block cookies from that site forever.  It
>takes less than a second now.  If I then have to later allow cookies,
>Mozilla makes that pretty easy too.
>
>Privoxy can handle blocking and allowing cookies too, but I find it
>easier to do that in Mozilla.
>
>Here is a partial list of sites I have manually added to Privoxy's
>blocked list:
>
>.suitesmart.com
>ssl-hints.netflame.cc
>www.site-analyser.com
>.statcounter.com
>www.discountdomains.co.nz/phplive
>.pro-market.net
>webcounter.goweb.de
>www.easycounter.com
>pop.mircx.com
>.gator.com
>.valueclick.com
>pagead.googlesyndication.com
>a.tribalfusion.com
>.linkexchange.com
>.adserver.com
>.fastclick.net
>.sitemeter.com
>logs.megagiga.com
>banners.wunderground.com
>tracker.hitmatic.com
>popups.ad-logics.com
>pub17.bravenet.com/counter/
>.thecounter.com
>.humanclick.com
>.popuptraffic.com
>fastcounter.bcentral.com
>member.bcentral.com/cgi-bin/fc/fastcounter
>.beseen.com
>#.webstat.net
>freecounter.unms.com
>tools.addme.com/servlet/
>.paycounter.com
>.doubleclick.com
>.stats4all.com
>wustat.windows.com
>.xpagecount.com
>images.v3.com
>.mtree.com
>.adfreestats.com
>
>--
>Stephen Worthington
>  
>

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for doing the leg-work on that list of sites!

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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