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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 > > -- > David Shaw | [email protected] | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. > We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson >
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