[39638] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: X-10 and like behaviour.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Thomason)
Thu Jul 19 13:04:29 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:57:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Thomason <james@divide.org>
To: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> There are a few windows programs that claim to block popups. X10 even
I have been using the free Adextinguisher on windows at
http://adext.magenet.net/ for quite some time. No X-10 here, or any other
ads for that matter.
Regards,
James
> recommends them for people who don't want to get their ads, which
> surprised me since it pretty much admits that they know they're
> harassing people to the point of installing special software just to
> get some X10 ad relief. Seems like a poor way to get name recognition
> to me ("X10? Oh yeah... they do those really annoying ads, and made
> me buy special software just to be rid of them. Ooh, I think I'll buy
> something from them posthaste!").
>
> I just did:
>
> echo "127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com" >> /etc/hosts
>
> which solves half of the problem (I get an empty popup).
>
> David
>
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