how-to block ads
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switchtech
@sprintlink.net
| reply to Mr WOW
Re: WOW tracking connection to Google!!
Install COOKIEWALL by analog X. It's free and you will be AMAZED of the cookies that get dumped on your PC. When it's installed and set up to start w/windows, it will capture all your cookies. You can decide to add them to the kill list or accept. It will alert of new cookies too. I use and though a cookie gets dumped on my pc, it deletes it. If you go to web pages that stores your signon info, you can add that cookie to the "keep" section. I know IE and others will delete this stuff but even after deleting everything you think is there, cookiewall will find stuff there. Also running CLEANUP! is a way to make it harder for this stuff to stay on your PC. Cookiewall is a must and I've used it since it was version 1. | |
Iczer
@wideopenwest.com
| Thanks very much, switchtech, for the tip. I agree, cookie management is extremely valuable. I've always filtered my cookies, and deny cookies from almost all of the sites I visit.
However, the infuriating thing about this is that in order to stop WOW (NebuAD) from tracking you, they actually want you to allow them to SET A COOKIE!!!
»www.nebuad.com/privacy/optout.php
»www.networkadvertising.org/consu···_out.asp
Not only that, but you need to do this on every computer you have, in every browser you use, and of course, if you regularly delete your cookies, you'll need to do it every time you delete your cookies!!
Folks, this is borderline ridiculous. Even if I want to opt-out of their tracking, they'll still have a cookie on my machine, tracking my "opt-out status" cookie. And regardless of my status, on whichever pages WOW allows NebuAD to track, every time I hit said page (like google), it's going to call a NebuAD server to check my tracking status cookie, therefore slowing down my browsing. | |
Millenniumle
join:2007-11-11
Fredonia, NY
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Use Opera and ad these to your blocked content:
*faireagle.com*
*yieldmanager.com*
*addynamix.com*
*adtrgt.com*
*burstnet.com*
*contextweb.com*
*doubleclick.net*
*fastclick.net*
*adjuggler.com*
*realmedia.com*
*trafficmp.com*
Or put the full domians into your hosts file. Most, if not all, of these domains will be nixed by any ad blocking software or publically maintained host file. | |
tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
| reply to Iczer
Re: WOW tracking connection to Google!!
To add to switchtechs post, that's the thing with cookiewall. It uses very little resources. That's one reason I like it. You can put those cookies in the KILL list so every time you "visit" that site, it gets deleted. If you just have to have a cookie, you can put one in the keep bin but everything else you want deleted, will get just that. But as it's been stated, using your browser is nice but I've found that no matter how you tweak it, sometimes, it will hinder you from some websites, whereas cookiewall doesn't stop you from going there, it just gets rid of the cookies after you get into the front door. I do review what new cookies I get in cookiewall and move them to the kill zone. But after a few weeks of surfing, you will have a pretty good list of cookies that get crumbled. My objective is to get rid of ANYTHING my ISP or other sites can use to help them make money off my clicks.  | |
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