Dave Howorth said the following on 01/05/2012 05:30 AM:
Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
If you do not want your pc's sending data to these sites block them in your router. If you can't talk to them you can't send them any data.
How quaint :) I used to have a lot of lines in my /etc/hosts file:
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net
But nowadays Adblock, NoScript and Ghostery seem to do a reasonable job if you're using Firefox.
Indeed they do; I particularly like Adblock freeing up the space on the page that the advert would have occupied. But that doesn't address the OP's issue. That gets back to a routing problem. Yes, ultimately you need your router to have a large list of disabled addresses, but DNS can go a long way to figuring out what those addresses are. Check out http://pgl.yoyo.org/ for a number of tools and strategies and databases for addressing this. -- "Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." -- Thomas Carlyle. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org